One of a kind Automobile......... 1906 Adams-Farwell

[Bold & Old]

I am amazed at turn of the century how bright automobile pioneers with so many variations of engines powering the automobiles.

The video of a running 1906 Adams Farwell engine rotating and the pistons being stationary... basically a rotary engine.

Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y0XbqHUAI-0?feature=player_detailpage

 

[Backrd.Junkyard]

I wonder what the gyroscopic force would have been like on an icy road...

 

[super-bee_ski]

Thank you for Posting that
Incredible

 

[Red63440]

Thank you for posting

 

[Bold & Old]

I wonder what the gyroscopic force would have been like on an icy road...

Now your thinking in depth........... vary interesting thought.

its amazing that the human brain was the technology back then..... not bad...

 

[33 IMP]

I was at Bill Harrah's museum many years ago, and that car was running in the restoration shop. It was amazing!
Edit: that thing shook like a scared dog with parkinsons.

 

[khryslerkid]

Pretty Kool

How do you do a compression test on it?

 

[Backrd.Junkyard]

My first thought was the engineers saying “The whole principle of pulleys and fans with running belts just isn’t dangerous enough. Let’s see what we can do to take care of that”!

 

[eldubb440]

Pretty Kool

How do you do a compression test on it?

carefully......you know I'd lose a finger, right?

 

[Photon440]

Pretty much the same engine configuration as the Le Rhone that powered so many WW I fighter aircraft....on both sides of the battle.

 

[Pistol Pete]

I wonder what the gyroscopic force would have been like on an icy road...

Road ?

 

[Backrd.Junkyard]

Road ?

A time when fuel was like water and roads were like the surface of the moon!

 

[toolmanmike]

I am amazed at turn of the century how bright automobile pioneers with so many variations of engines powering the automobiles.

The video of a running 1906 Adams Farwell engine rotating and the pistons being stationary... basically a rotary engine.

Enjoy.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y0XbqHUAI-0?feature=player_detailpage

Made in Dubuque. Cool. Only a hour drive away.

 

[gtx6970]

That was cool.

 

[Bold & Old]

Pretty Kool

How do you do a compression test on it?

The mechanical geniuses of that area had that figured out.

I am guessing that would be before the engine is mounted in the car.

I imagine there were no reason to do so due to only a few were ever made and that issue never came up.

About ten years ago I had a running Laurence APU radial engine (auxiliary power unit) that was used to start the big B-29s radial engines. (NOT the one in the photo below)..

https://rec.aviation.homebuilt.narkive.com/XPqiBg0c/lawrance-5-cyl-mini-radial-engines


The or my engine I had was about the same size engine that the Adams Farwell engine.

The radial engine power may have originated from the pioneers ..... like Adams Farwell for its amazing power.

The 1906 engine had 50 hp engine which is a lot of power.

Some folks made a small one man ultralight aircraft's from the the B-29s Laurence APUs.

No I do not have it any more.

 

[joe smith]

So the APU was also a Radial?? Just like most of the M4 WWII tanks
What was the APU in a B17??

 

[toolmanmike]

And then there's Harley Davidson. 2 cylinders from a radial.

 

[joe smith]

And then there's Harley Davidson. 2 cylinders from a radial.

Good point.......

 

[Bold & Old]

So the APU was also a Radial?? Just like most of the M4 WWII tanks
What was the APU in a B17??

I am only know about the B-29s due having one of the APU engines.

 

[Bold & Old]

So the APU was also a Radial?? Just like most of the M4 WWII tanks
What was the APU in a B17??

Yes it was a radial 5 cylinder as seen in the photo.