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According to the limited information Herkimer scheduled production for single propeller commercial version of this engine in the early 1940's. Other than a few repro’s, fabricated by welding two twins together, it appears no commercial engines were actually produced or sold.
The military version sports a coaxial drive for contra rotating propellers with a dual point distributor in the back. It measures 11.5 inches long, 8 inches wide plug to plug, 5 inches high, and weighs 4 pounds- 12 ounces; it burns gas with oil mixed in for lubrication. As the war approached a few were produced for military testing but one or two either failed or were destroyed by the Army, which ended the program. This engine is believed to be the only engine, or possibly one of two original engines that survived.
Like the OK twin it has a single updraft carburetor with manifold tubes extending to each cylinder. Interesting is the tubes that make up the manifold appear to be rolled from brass sheet stock with the seams soldered.
See Tim Dannels article in his Engine Collectors Journal, Volume 32 number 3, Issue 183, July 2007.
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Paul and Paula Knapp
Miniature Engineering Museum
This laboratory is used for the instruction of specific engineering-based software packages. When the laboratory is not being utilized for instruction, it serves as a general computer laboratory for all engineering students.
Industrial and Systems Engineering professor Geza Bottlik meets with JunXiao Kevin Zhang and Yen-Chun Kimmy Kuo. Photo by: Philip Channing
Milwaukee School of Engineering gets the green flag for their autocross run at the 10th annual Formula Hybrid competition.
Photo by Kathryn LoConte Lapierre.
Side view of Engineering shop with the MAC smokestack on the right. On the front of the photograph is written "1827-M."
1941
Repository Information:
Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, 101 Conrad Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824, archives.msu.edu
Subjects:
Michigan State University -- Buildings -- Engineering Shops
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this is a tiny detail (but still impressive in size) of the internal structure of the LZ129 hindenburg, the zeppelin that ended the zeppelin era. seeing the sheer number of parts in this construction is mindboggling: each of the triangular beams is constructed of probably hundreds of aluminum parts bolted together, and there are thousands of those beams. the ropes were used to separate the gas bags (not part of the reconstruction) from the outer shell, so that the trapped air would serve as insulation, and also make sure that a minor accident involving the outer shell would not compromise the gas bags. ultimately, the zeppelin era did not last very long, but seeing how far they got (LZ130, the biggest one, was 244m/803ft in length) is pretty amazing.
In its 22nd year, the Engineering Expo is the college’s premier community outreach event. On average, the college welcomes more than 1,500 K-12 students from Miami-Dade and Broward County schools (elementary, middle, and high school) to the FIU Engineering Center to engage with FIU student organizations, researchers and staff, and to discover the endless possibilities of pursuing a degree in engineering or computing.
Third-place winner of the Engineering Contest is The University of Texas at Austin and Technische Universitaet Muenchen at the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015, October 17, 2015, at the Orange County Great Park, Irvine, California. (Credit: Thomas Kelsey/U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon)
Vintage postcard. Brigitte Bardot in La vérité / The Truth (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960).
French actress Brigitte Bardot (1934) died on 28 December 2025, at the age of 91. In the 1950s, she was the sex kitten of the European film industry. BB starred in 48 films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded 80 songs. After her retirement in 1973, she became an animal rights activist. In the coming weeks, we will continue to post a BB postcard every day to remember her as she once was.
Brigitte Bardot was born in Paris in 1934. Her father, Louis Bardot, had an engineering degree and worked with his father in the family business. Her mother, Ann-Marie Mucel, was 14 years younger than Brigitte's father, and they married in 1933. Brigitte's mother encouraged her daughter to take up music and dance. At the age of 13, she entered the Conservatoire Nationale de Danse to study ballet. By the time she was 15, Brigitte was trying to launch a modelling career and found herself on the cover of the French magazine Elle in May 1949. Her incredible beauty was readily apparent, and Brigitte was noticed by Roger Vadim, then an assistant to the film director Marc Allegrét. Vadim was infatuated with Bardot and encouraged her to start working as a film actress. BB was 18 when she debuted in the comedy Le Trou Normand / Crazy for Love (Jean Boyer, 1952). In the same year, she married Vadim. Brigitte wanted to marry him when she was 17, but her parents quashed any marriage plans until she turned 18. In April 1953, she attended the Cannes Film Festival, where she received massive media attention. She soon was every man's idea of the girl he'd like to meet in Paris. From 1952 to 1956, she appeared in seventeen films. Her films were generally lightweight romantic dramas in which she was cast as an ingénue or siren, often with an element of undress. In 1953, she made her first US production, Un acte d'amour / Act of Love (Anatole Litvak, 1953) with Kirk Douglas, but she continued to make films in France.
Roger Vadim was not content with the light fare his wife was offered. He felt Brigitte Bardot was being undersold. Looking for something more like an art film to push her as a serious actress, he showcased her in Et Dieu créa la femme / ...And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim, 1956). This film, about an immoral teenager in a respectable small-town setting, was a smash success on both sides of the Atlantic. Craig Butler at AllMovie: "It's easy enough to say that ...And God Created Woman is much more important for its historical significance than for its actual quality as a film, and that's true to an extent. The immense popularity, due to its willingness to directly embrace an exploration of sex as well as its willingness to show a degree of nudity that was remarkably daring for its day, demonstrated that audiences were willing to view subject matter that was considered too racy for the average moviegoer. This had both positive (freedom to explore, especially for the French filmmakers of the time) and negative (freedom to exploit) consequences, but its impact is undeniable. It's also true that Woman is not a great work of art, not with a story that is ultimately rather thin, some painful dialogue, and an attitude toward its characters and their sexuality that is unclear and inconsistent. Yet Woman is still fascinating, due in no small part to the presence of Brigitte Bardot in the role that made her an international star and sex symbol. She's not demonstrating great acting here, although her performance is actually good and much better than necessary, and her legendary mambo scene at the climax is nothing short of sensational." During the filming of Et Dieu créa la femme / And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim, 1956), directed by her husband, Brigitte Bardot had an affair with her co-star, Jean-Louis Trintignant, who at the time was married to French actress Stéphane Audran. Her divorce from Vadim followed, but they remained friends and collaborated in later work.
Et Dieu créa la femme / ...And God Created Woman (Roger Vadim, 1956) helped Brigitte Bardot's international status. The film took the USA by storm, her explosive sexuality being unlike anything seen in the States since the days of the 'flapper' in the 1920s. It gave rise to the phrase 'sex kitten', and fascination with her in America consisted of magazine photographs and dubbed over French films - good, bad or indifferent, her films drew audiences - mainly men - into theatres like lemmings. BB appeared in light comedies like Doctor at Large (Ralph Thomas, 1957) - the third of the British 'Doctor' series starring Dirk Bogarde - and Une Parisienne / La Parisienne (Michel Boisrond, 1957), which suited her acting skills best. However, she was a sensation in the crime drama En cas de malheur / Love is My Profession (Claude Autant-Lara, 1958). Hal Erickson at AllMovie: "This Brigitte Bardot vehicle ran into stiff opposition from the Catholic Legion of Decency, severely limiting its U.S. distribution. Bardot plays a nubile small-time thief named Yvette, who becomes the mistress of influential defence attorney Andre (Jean Gabin). Though Andre can shower Yvette with jewels and furs, he cannot "buy" her heart, and thus it is that it belongs to handsome young student Mazzetti (Franco Interlenghi). Alas, Yvette is no judge of human nature: attractive though Mazzetti can be, he has a dangerous and deadly side. En Cas de Malheur contains a nude scene that has since been reprinted in freeze-frame form innumerable times by both film-history books and girlie magazines." Photographer Sam Lévin's photos contributed considerably to her image of sensuality and slight immorality. One of Lévin's pictures shows Brigitte, dressed in a white corset. It is said that around 1960, postcards with this photograph outsold in Paris those of the Eiffel Tower.
Brigitte Bardot divorced Vadim in 1957, and in 1959 she married actor Jacques Charrier, with whom she starred in Babette s'en va-t-en guerre / Babette Goes to War (Christian-Jaque, 1959). The paparazzi preyed upon her marriage, while she and her husband clashed over the direction of her career
Her films became more substantial, but this brought a heavy pressure of dual celebrity as she sought critical acclaim while remaining a glamour model for most of the world. Vie privée / Private Life (1962), directed by Louis Malle, has more than an element of autobiography in it. James Travers at French Films: "Brigitte Bardot hadn’t quite reached the high point of her career when she agreed to make this film with high-profile New Wave film director Louis Malle. Even so, the pressure of being a living icon was obviously beginning to get to France’s sex goddess, and Vie privée is as much an attempt by Bardot to come to terms with her celebrity as anything else. Malle is clearly fascinated by Bardot, and the documentary approach he adopts for this film reinforces the impression that it is more a biography of the actress than a work of fiction. Of course, it’s not entirely biographical, but the story is remarkably close to Bardot’s own life and comes pretty close to predicting how her career would end." The scene in which, returning to her apartment, Bardot's character is harangued in the elevator by a middle-aged cleaning lady calling her offensive names was based on an actual incident, and is a resonant image of celebrity in the mid-20th century. Soon afterwards, Bardot withdrew to the seclusion of Southern France.
Brigitte Bardot's other husbands were German millionaire Playboy Gunter Sachs and right-wing politician Bernard d'Ormale. She is reputed to have had relationships with many other men, including Samy Frey, her co-star in La Vérité / The Truth (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1960), and musicians Serge Gainsbourg and Sacha Distel. In 1963, Brigitte Bardot starred in Jean-Luc Godard's critically acclaimed film Le Mépris / Contempt (Jean-Luc Godard, 1963) opposite Michel Piccoli. She was also featured along with such notable actors as Alain Delon in Amours célèbres / Famous Love Affairs (Michel Boisrond, 1961) and Histoires extraordinaires /Tales of Mystery (Louis Malle, 1968), Jeanne Moreau in Viva Maria! (Louis Malle, 1965), Sean Connery in Shalako (Edward Dmytryk, 1968), and Claudia Cardinale in Les Pétroleuses / Petroleum Girls (Christian-Jaque, 1971). She participated in various musical shows and recorded many popular songs in the 1960s and 1970s, mostly in collaboration with Serge Gainsbourg, Bob Zagury and Sacha Distel, including 'Harley Davidson', 'Le Soleil De Ma Vie' (the cover of Stevie Wonder's 'You Are the Sunshine of My Life') and the notorious 'Je t'aime... moi non plus'.
Brigitte Bardot’s film career showed a steady decline in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1973, just before her fortieth birthday, she announced her retirement. She chose to use her fame to promote animal rights. In 1976, she established the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the Welfare and Protection of Animals. She became a vegetarian and raised three million French francs to fund the foundation by auctioning off jewellery and many personal belongings. For this work, she was awarded the Légion d’honneur in 1984. During the 1990s, she was also outspoken in her criticism of immigration, interracial relationships, Islam in France and homosexuality. Her husband Bernard d'Ormal was a former adviser of the far-right Front National party. Bardot has been convicted five times for 'inciting racial hatred'. More fun is that Bardot is recognised for popularising bikini swimwear, in such early films as Manina / Woman without a Veil (Willy Rozier, 1952), in her appearances at Cannes and in many photo shoots. Bardot also brought into fashion the 'choucroute' ('Sauerkraut') hairstyle (a sort of beehive hairstyle) and gingham clothes after wearing a checkered pink dress, designed by Jacques Esterel, at her wedding to Charrier. The fashions of the 1960s looked effortlessly right and spontaneous on her. Time Magazine: "She is the princess of pout, the countess of come hither. Brigitte Bardot exuded a carefree, naïve sexuality that brought a whole new audience to French films."
Sources: Denny Jackson (IMDb), Hal Erickson (AllMovie), Craig Butler (AllMovie), James Travers (French Films), French Films, Wikipedia and IMDb.
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This is an early water-cooled Profi V twin (circa 2000) that burns methanol, on glow ignition, with caster oil mixed in for lubrication. The engine was very limited in production and immediately became a “must have’ for model engine collectors. Dr. Bob Kradjian is an accomplished machinist and a professional when it comes to exhibits. He added his expertly machined and beautifully polished engine mount and fuel tank to produce this display.
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Miniature Engineering Museum
Professor Benoit Cushman-Roisin's Intro to Environmental Engineering class visited the local Water Treatment Plant.
Photo by Alex Arcone.
Coast Guard Academy cadets present designs ranging from medical devices designed to prevent pressure ulcer complications to propulsion shaft anti-roll bars designed for use on a heavy icebreaker such as the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star for the Mechanical Engineering department’s capstone projects, April 26, 2017.
These designs not only provide cadets with a solid set of skills, which can be utilized in the fleet, but also could make positive impacts on individuals outside of the Coast Guard.
Official Coast Guard photos by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nicole Barger.
De La Salle High School alums Luke Popiel (senior, electrical and computer engineering), Pavel Popiel (junior, chemical engineering), and Alex Gagliardi (freshman, biomedical engineering) visit their alma mater to recruit the next class of excellent future engineers.
GÉNIales, les filles est une occasion stimulante pour les filles de connaître davantage le monde merveilleux de l’ingénierie
This event is to encourage girls to consider studies and careers in engineering by introducing them to fun hands-on activities
The front is extruded aluminum similar to the Cox engines and the fuel tank is cast aluminum. It is said these prototype engines were built by McCoy for Testers in 1954. This is serial number 7 of the 8 reported to have been produced.
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Miniature Engineering Museum
Coast Guard Academy cadets present designs ranging from medical devices designed to prevent pressure ulcer complications to propulsion shaft anti-roll bars designed for use on a heavy icebreaker such as the Coast Guard Cutter Polar Star for the Mechanical Engineering department’s capstone projects, April 26, 2017.
These designs not only provide cadets with a solid set of skills, which can be utilized in the fleet, but also could make positive impacts on individuals outside of the Coast Guard.
Official Coast Guard photos by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nicole Barger.
Riley Hanson, A&D Undergrad, and Christopher Stock, LS&A Undergrad, find a way to warm up during a day that the 'U' cancelled classes due to fear of windchill reaching -30F on January 28, 2014.
Photo: Joseph Xu, Michigan Engineering Communications & Marketing
The Class of 2012 for the College of Engineering graduated as in one Commencement ceremony Saturday, May 12, a first thanks to the new 7,000-seat College Park Center.
Alec D. Gallimore, the Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering, smiles and shakes hands with a graduating student as she take part in the College of Engineering Commencement Ceremony at the Crisler Center at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Saturday, April 30, 2022.
Photo: Brenda Ahearn/University of Michigan, College of Engineering, Communications and Marketing