How Miss Shilling’s Orifice Helped Win the War

[manbridge 74]

For carburetor and WWII junkies….

https://www.damninteresting.com/how-miss-shillings-orifice-helped-win-the-war/

[LWJ]

What a great read!

[greglepore]

I thought from the title...well, never mind

[neriwoods]

That was interesting to read.

[astrochex]

Wonderful piece!

Such a great story.

[Sooner or later]

Thanks for sharing!

[Seahawk]

Fantastic...I really enjoy reading about people and events like Miss Shilling.

Thanks!

[KFC911]

Originally Posted by greglepore

I thought from the title...well, never mind

So I wasn't the only one

[maxnine11]

That was worth it just for the diagram of the Merlin engine.
Handwritten serif text! Wow.

https://damn-8791.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/merlin-cutaway-scaled.jpg

[vash]

Originally Posted by KC911

So I wasn't the only one

no. no you were not. i feel ashamed

i'll read it later.

[pwd72s]

Great story...thanks.

[flatbutt]

That is a very interesting read but a naughty title none the less.

Here's another woman that most people never heard of:

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cecilia-Payne-Gaposchkin

Cecilia Helena Payne, (born May 10, 1900, Wendover, Eng.—died Dec. 7, 1979, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.), British-born American astronomer who discovered that stars are made mainly of hydrogen and helium and established that stars could be classified according to their temperatures.
Payne received the first Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College for her thesis, since Harvard did not grant doctoral degrees to women. Astronomers Otto Struve and Velta Zebergs later called her thesis “undoubtedly the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy.”

Also Annie Jump Cannon

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/annie-jump-cannon

[gacook]

OP must work writing headlines for clickbait news--bastages!

[VINMAN]

Suddenly lost interest in seeing Miss Shillings orifice....

[oldE]

I found it interesting that the article did not mention German fighter aircraft did not suffer from lean stumble induced in the nose over into a dive because their Daimler engines were fuel injected.

Quite the lady.
Best
Les

[Bob Kontak]

Originally Posted by maxnine11

That was worth it just for the diagram of the Merlin engine.

I wonder if Office Max could print that out on a plotter? Would make a nice garage poster.

[DavidI]

Outstanding read!

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by Bob Kontak

I wonder if Office Max could print that out on a plotter? Would make a nice garage poster.

plotters need vector graphics..