What Race Cars were commonly used in the Indy 500 in the 1920's?

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Taren

I am doing a project, and need some details on what types of cars were used in that time period, and some technical specs.

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There is a place called "Google",it will give you all the info. that you require.

Does anyone know any interesting facts about Indiana?

Broccoli E

I need some help with an essay I'm doing on Indiana. I'm having a really hard time finding info on it. If anyone knows enough info to use in a 5 paragraph essay, that would help a lot. I need some interesting facts.

Note: I'm doing an essay, not a report. Knowing things such as the state flower and stuff will not help me. Please tell me lots of info.

Thank you guys so much!
Also, it is INDIANA, a state in the US. Not the country India. Thanks to those that answered!

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* In 1920 the Duesenburg Motor Company in Auburn produced its first production car and the first Studebaker automobiles were powered by electricity.
* The first rapid fire gun was patented by Richard Gatling from Indianapolis in 1862.
* The first automatic headlight dimmer was developed in Anderson in 1952.
* The winning time of the first Indianapolis 500 in 1911 was 6 hours, 41 minutes and 8 seconds by driver Ray Harroun.
* John Dillinger was from Mooresville, Indiana.
* Nineteen-eighteen was the year an outgoing, likable, six-foot-tall basketball player named Charles H. "Chuck" Taylor made the Indiana High School All-State Team. Chuck was a Columbus born athlete and later a sports broadcaster. He developed a high top sneaker known as âChucksâ that were created by Converse. They were the official shoe for the Rolling Stones revival tour.
* The first diesel powered tractor was produced in Columbus, Indiana in 1930.
* The debut of singer Frank Sinatra was in Indianapolis at the Lyric Theater February 2, 1940 appearing with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
* McCormick's Creek was Indiana's first State Park.
* The original plans of Jeffersonville City were drafted by Thomas Jefferson.
* One of the nation's first electric inter-urban lines was opened between the towns of Brazil and Harmony.
* Elkhart, Indiana is the band instrument capitol of the World.
* The library in Fort Wayne, Indiana houses one of the largest genealogy libraries in America.



* Notre Dame played its first football game in 1887. They would go on to win 11 national championships.
* Theme parks were invented in Indiana. The world's first theme park opened on August 3, 1946, in Santa Claus, Indiana. Santa Claus Land opened a full nine years before Mr. Disney opened his park in California. Today, Santa Claus Land is called Holiday World, and includes The Raven - voted the #1 Wooden Coaster on the planet in 2000. Holiday World continues to be owned and operated by the same family that got it all started more than half a century ago.
* There's only *one* Santa Claus Post Office in the world. And it's in Indiana! Since May 21, 1856, the little post office in Santa Claus, Indiana, has faced a blizzard of holiday mail each December as folks send their mail to get the special Santa Claus, Indiana, postmark.
* Abraham Lincoln grew up in Indiana. From the time he was 7 until he reached 21, he and his family lived on a farm in what is now Lincoln City, Indiana, in Spencer County. There's a national park, a state park, and even an outdoor drama in his honor.
* The remains of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln's mother, rest in a peaceful pioneer cemetery in Lincoln City, Indiana. She died in 1818, when Abraham was nine years old.
* Tomato Juice was first served at a French Lick Hotel.
* A German Buzz Bomb from WWII, believed to be the only one on public display in the Nation, can be found on the Putnam County Courthouse lawn in Greencastle.
* The world's first transistor radio was made in Indianapolis.

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Where can I find information on the invention of the car radio in 1920? Please Help!!!!!!!!!?

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on cloud n

I am doing a one page paper in the invention of the car radio in the 1920's! I have searched google and a few other search engines. I really need to find this info so if you can help me that would be greatly appreciated! Thanx!

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WILLIAM P. LEAR (1902 - 1978)

Audio, automotive and aircraft apparatus

Bill From the 1930s to the 1960s, William Powell Lear earned over 100 patents for groundbreaking electronic devices in three industries, including the first practical automobile radio, the airplane radio-compass and autopilot, and the eight-track tape player.

Born in Hannibal, Missouri in 1902, Lear attended public school in Chicago only through the eighth grade. During World War I, at age 16, he joined the Navy; after the War, he became a pilot. Here, Lear received the training that fueled a lifetime of invention in electronic technology.

At the age of 20, Lear founded Quincy Radio Laboratory, the first of his many companies. In the late 1920s Lear was contracted by Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in Chicago to assist Galvin engineers with a car radio design project. Later, a car radio patent was issued to Lear (U.S. patent 1,944,139). In 1930 Galvin Manufacturing introduced this car radio as the "Motorola." It was one of the first commercially successful car radios, and the first major product for the company that later became Motorola, Inc. Paul V. Galvin created the Motorola brand from "motor" (motorcar) + "ola" (sound).

Meanwhile, Lear turned his attention to airplanes. By the beginning of the Second World War, he had invented the first reliable aeronautical radio compass, as well as the "Learmatic Navigator"âan automatic pilot system, which kept planes on course by locking into whatever radio broadcasts the apparatus picked up.

During World War II, Lear's companies were a major source of the technology that helped make an Allied victory possible. Lear followed up his War effort by perfecting miniature autopilots for fighter jets, and by developing the first fully automatic landing system. This latter invention won Lear the FAA's Collier Trophy, bestowed on him by President Truman (1950). In 1962, after he made possible the first-ever completely automatic blind landings of passenger flights, Lear was also honored by the French Government. In the same year, Lear formed Learjet, which soon became --- as it remains, under different ownership --- the world's foremost supplier of corporate jets.

But Lear moved on to yet another challenge: the perfection of an endless magnetic loop recording and playback system. As early as 1946, Lear had been interested in audio recordings; after experimenting more seriously in the early 1960s, he created the eight-track tape player. Lear's tape contained four stereo "programs," running in parallel on eight "tracks," for the entire length of a single, continuous tape loop. A solenoid coil detected the splice where the loop was closed, and sent a signal to the playback head to shift over to the next pair of tracks at that point. Because Lear's system had thinner tape and compact recording heads, this shifting process could be repeated indefinitely.

Lear's system was a great improvement on the esoteric four-track players that already existed; it was also a huge marketing success. From 1965 well into the 1970s, Lear's eight-track players made their way from Lear jets and Ford cars into the homes of virtually every music enthusiast.

Lear's projects in the 1970s included further small-aircraft design, and the search for an antipollutant steam engine. Before and after his death in 1978, Lear earned many other honors, including induction into the International Aerospace Hall of Fame (1981). He also acquired a reputation as an eccentric, since he --- like Samuel Clemens, another native of Hannibal, Missouri --- vividly envisioned time-travel, and even predicted "teleporting" (cf. "beaming" in Star Trek).

Critics should realize that the vision that earned William Lear sneers is the same vision that helped him transform the automotive, aviation and audio industries. If global technology has not advanced as quickly as Lear thought it would, it was through no fault of his own.

Should i have a ported or sealed box in my new car?

bhphilip06

I have 2 audiobahn flame Q's that rms around i think 1200 watts and i have a Power Acoustik 1920 watt 2-channel amp with a 3 farad capacitor. What i'm trying to figure out is if i should port the box for maximum possible bass, alot of people are telling me bandpass but i don't feel like spending the time nor the effort to build a bandpass box and money is also short so im not going to just go out and buy one any suggestions on how big or how small with how many ports and what size or any suggestions will be helpful. "and also i have dynamted the entire trunk"

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Do the best of both worlds - a sealed/ported or bandpass

Here's some info on box types:

http://spkrbox1.spaces.msn.com

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