Piston

Shift-shock, Nitro-junkie & Badmotorjam I have a natural appreciation for muscle cars, classic automobiles, motorcycles et al. So you 'll have to indulge me while I quench my thirst with gasoline. My experience last week at the pump started the proverbial pistons firing in my head and I thought why not throw up the hood and look to see what makes this work. I 'm not an expert mechanic, but I know how the parts function and am not afraid to try a few things out. I have noticed that whenever…

Maserati Ghibli Vietnam (Review) Highlights: Maserati has been serving worldwide through the cars it produces in various segments like sports, luxury, SUV (Grand Tourer, Saloon and Sports Car) etc. The mission of this brand has always been to build ultra-luxury cars with a chunk of Italian style. Ghibli debuted for the first time in the year 1966 and was tagged on the 9th position on the list of Top Sports Cars of the 1960s, by American magazine 'Sports Car International '. With a glorious…

Western Conference 1. Golden State Warriors - Imagine a rich guy winning the lottery; that’s the 2016-17 Golden State Warriors. Can they win 74 games in the upcoming regular season? 2. San Antonio Spurs - Swap Tim Duncan for Pau Gasol and what do you get? Basically the same Spurs team as last year: still old, but still good. 3. Utah Jazz - The new kids on the block. The up-and-comers. The millennials of the NBA. The Jazz have been bad for a while, but that should stop now. 4. Portland Trail…

The Growth of Electric Cars Up until the 20th century, electric cars were more abundant than traditional combustion engined cars. The combustion engine overtook the electric engine in popularity due to being more convenient to refuel and Henry Ford mass producing the Ford model T. This leads to internal combustion engined cars to be very cheap. In present time, internal combustion engines still triumphs over the electric car, but they are becoming more mainstream as people around the world are…

Chevrolet has finally taken the wraps off its newest version of Camaro, the high-performance 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. The company claims that the new Camaro model delivers unprecedented levels of technology, refinement, track capability, and straight-line acceleration. The Camaro ZL1 is the first GM car to offer the new 10-speed automatic transmission, and its 200 pounds lighter than its predecessor thanks to the new vehicle architecture called Alpha platform lighter architecture that…

Architecture was considered one of the lesser sciences by the ancient Romans, though many would argue it to be the most useful. Architecture in the ancient world was the summation of many schools of thought used to directly benefit the people. Ancient architects were much closer to a combination of civil and mechanical engineers, modern architects, carpenters, and many other odd jobs making them master builders in many fields. Architects were vital to the design and implication of technologies…

in their best-of-seven East Semis series four games to three and advances to face the conference defending champions Cleveland Cavaliers, who were undefeated in the postseason. The LeBron James Cavaliers swept all their opponents from the Detroit Pistons in the First-Round to the Atlanta Hawks in the Second-Round of the 2016 NBA playoffs. "It's great to hear the home crowd," DeRozan said. "This organization deserves it, this country deserves it, to see them get to the next step, somewhere they…

of the world. It was the industry of Detroit which had supported the war efforts in the Second World War. One of the best places to visit in Detroit is the Palace of Auburn Hills which is a huge sports center and serves as the home of the Detroit Pistons, the famous basketball…

Past two guarded gates in an old airplane hangar, is a robotics lab at the NASA Ames Research Center. During the day, it is filled with scrap metal, blue banners, and heavy machinery. In the evening and late into the night, it fills with girls: girls who are determined and passionate; girls who want to laugh and make friends; girls who want to learn everything they can about building robots. These girls make up my community: the Space Cookies. Space Cookies is an FRC team, a Girl Scout troop,…

Newcomen's first working engine was installed at a coal mine at Dudley Castle in Staffordshire in 1712. It had a cylinder 21 inches in diameter and nearly eight feet long, and it worked at 12 strokes a minute, raising 10 gallons of water from a depth of 156 feet. The engines were rugged and reliable and worked day and night - a factor which made them hugely successful. By the time Thomas Newcomen died in 1729, there were at least 100 of his engines working in Britain and across Europe. They were…