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Replica of original Wright brothers engine

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  • @JeffGR4

    the soup can from that era was made with very thick steel. It's plausible.

    Just like ford when they bought up all the model t's to find out what was too good. Cotter pins ect. then they wigglewagged on there prodution and now make shit cars and trucks for this reason. The cans where of all different dimensions in the pass and I beleive the first experiment used some kind of readily available cyclinder. SOup Can.

  • These "soup can" stories usually get started by the same kind of reporters that interviewed this story--reporters that know nothing about which they are supposed to be investigating.

  • The Classic story is that the Wright Bros used a TOMATO CAN for the Carburetor.It does look like there is some sort of a can on the top of the engine.

  • C'mon, dude...soup cans? Don't even bring that up. It's obvious by looking at the replica, that no soup cans were involved. Great story. Mr. Lowery and his colleagues did a fantastic job. Beautiful engine, just beautiful.

  • It is amazing that this engine works as well as it does, considering its very simple fuel system- it vaporizes the fuel on a plate inside the intake manifold.

  • soooooo

  • engines are cool.

  • this is pretty awesome. I might have to stop by there and take a closer look :D

  • interesting

  • wow! pretty cool!

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