Retro Encabulator

[robh 12]

Eyes were going cross today and ran across again. Cracks me up. Read this and found that there was a bit if history behind it. I thought we were cutting edge with a Turboencabulator, but I guess we will have to upgrade to a Retro Encabulator. Sigmoid rumbling, flux muster, just kills me.

[Nathan 7]

I die laughing every time I see that...

[TConnolly 13]

From April 15 1946 Time magazine Engineers last week were avidly reading a pamphlet published by Arthur D. Little, Inc., a venerable Cambridge, Mass, chemical and engineering research firm. Title: The Turbo-Encabulator in Industry. Excerpts: " ... Work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a machine that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such a machine is the 'Turbo-Encabulator'. "The original machine had a base-plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. ... The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible trem'e pipe to the differential girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammeters. "Forty-one manestically spaced grouting brushes were arranged to feed into the rotor slipstream a mixture of high S-value phenylhydrobenzamine and 5% reminative tetryliodohexamine. Both of these liquids have specific pericosities given by P = 2.5C.n^6-7 where n is the diathetical evolute of retrograde temperature phase disposition and C is Cholmondeley's annular grillage coefficient. Initially, n was measured with the aid of a metapolar refractive pilfrometer . . . but up to the present date nothing has been found to equal the transcendental hopper dadoscope. ... "Undoubtedly, the turbo-encabulator has now reached a very high level of technical development. It has been successfully used for operating nofer trunnions. In addition, whenever a barescent skor motion is required, it may be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocating dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration."

[DanW 41]

Thanks for the link to a Chrysler version. Now it's clear why my minivan's transmission failed so early on. Sinusoidal depleneration. Shoulda known. I had only seen the Rockwell turbencablulator version previously. Dan

[Nathan 7]

That's the retro-encabulator...(for Rockwell's version) Edited 24 Jan 2008 by Nathan