More Suppressed Engines
The Diesel Engine
* Dr. Rudolph Diesel took the crude heavy fuel burning engine designs of those before him and refined them into the major engineering success of the 1900s. His invention immediately threatened the whole steam engine industry and just as he was plunging into fame and success, he permanently disappeared from the ship on which he was travelling to Europe.
The Hot & Cold Engine
* A sixty-five-year-old Swedish inventor made a breakthrough in the thermo-electric engine field. Because wires of different metals produce electricity if they are joined and heated, there has long been a potential in this principle. B. Von Platen’s secret breakthrough is said to give more than 30% efficiency in motors, and with a radioactive isotope for power, it could free it from fossil fuels. In 1973 Volvo of Sweden obtained the rights to his power unit; and that is the last we heard of it!
Air Fuel
* In the 1920s, a Los Angeles (Baldwin Hills) resident worked out a method to run an ordinary automobile on the constituents of ordinary air. Working out a system to keep his motors from melting from the high heat produced by the burning of oxygen, he contacted the auto makers. General Motors, acting for the industry, eventually got controlling stock of the small company, and that was the end. A reader of M.J BSRA Journal recalled that the motor was warmed up on ordinary fuel and then switched over to air after it became hot. That was it!
NO COMMON SENSE
ANALYZE THE EXAMPLE
* Which supports and barriers were in play?
* What were the dynamics?
* Who, or what won the Tug-of-War?
* Discuss the outcome with your friends and family.
* Use Post #4 as a reference tor the relationships and dynamics between supports and barriers!
