History of The World Game

[Pr2cv]

Who developed a herringbone shaped gear that did not need any form of thrust washers.It stayed in mesh and centered.
It's major problem was at the apex of the gear the lubricating oil would hydraulic but a pressure relief byway of a hole drilled at the apex solved this problem.
This engineer went on to founder a European automotive company

 

[Bushranger]

Andre Citrone!

 

[Pr2cv]

Andre Citroen was the boy!

Your turn

 

[Bushranger]

During the 1840's, convict Thomas Webb was pardoned and placed in charge of raising cattle for the colony in the Wellington/ Bathurst area. What was his original crime?

 

[Bushranger]

Hint. He was tried at the Old Bailey.

 

[Ramjet]

THOMAS WEBB was indicted for stealing, on the 14th of December , 1 half-sovereign, 4 shillings, and 6 halfpence , the monies of John Sealby

 

[Bushranger]

Close enough. Different Webb. He was sentenced to transportation for stealing cattle. Ironic!

 

[Ramjet]

Moo

Close enough. Different Webb. He was sentenced to transportation for stealing cattle. Ironic!

Funny.

There was a few Thomas Webb's misbehaving apparently.
Bushranger we try to keep all questions with an Aussie flavour over at the Australian History thread.
This is for the rest of the world

 

[Ramjet]

Who am I?
I was a sea captain, a cartographer, a professor of geometry, deputy controller of the Royal Mint and astronomer royal.
I have something named for me which I did not discover.

 

[Pr2cv]

Sir Issac Newton?

 

[Ramjet]

No Pete. Not Newton

 

[loamer]

Halley - as in the comet?

 

[Ramjet]

That's him Loamer.

He didn't discover the comet he saw in 1682 but realized it was the same one that had been seen by others in 1456, 1531, and 1607. It didn't become Halley's comet until 1758, some sixteen years after his death.

Your question sir...

 

[loamer]

Cheers Ramjet - he had a good band as well in the 1950s.

I am a USA Warship. I sunk a British naval Frigate in an act of war.
Name of US ship and year.

 

[Pr2cv]

USS .constitution. -old Ironsides

The oldest commissioned ship in the world followed by britains HMS Victory

Launched 1794

Engaged the British in 1812

 

[loamer]

correct - 1812. Your turn.

 

[Ramjet]

Too quick for me Pete.

The British ship was HMS GUERRIERE

 

[Pr2cv]

Who were the following.?

What did they design?

Andre Lefebvre

Walter Becchia

Pierre Boulanger

 

[Ramjet]

Citron 2CV

 

[Ramjet]

Correction after further reading
Citron DS