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How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]

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Re: How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]

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Post by ec109685 »

ams6110 wrote: post #34
dclowd9901 wrote: post #11

I wish, in school, teachers would have taught us things like this, how gears are just concurrent levers, how cams introduce asynchronicity to an operation. This is stuff I only started learning from working on and learning about cars. I remember even when I was in school (a good time ago now), they were already killing off shop classes and the like. How sad that schools couldn't see what values classes like that have…

Shop class material isn't on standardized tests, so --- no more shop classes.

All schools have electives though.

Re: How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]

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Post by janzer »

leoc wrote: post #40
michaelbuckbee wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The TransAtlantic Accent! -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpv_IkO_ZBU

But listen to how he pronounces the 'o's (in particular) in "and it couldn't get a good enough grip on the road" and "both rear wheels to the engine" https://youtu.be/yYAw79386WI?t=164 : Handy surely didn't learn that from an elocution class teaching RP-lite. Is it a trace of an Irish accent? a Scandinavian-American "Lutheran" accent?

To be clear, I'm pretty sure the narrator in these films is not Jam Handy. There is an interview with Mr. Handy himself here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlDdE3Q5BWM

Possibly interesting sidenote, to this day a large number of the audio/visual and staging companies in the Detroit area can trace their lineage back to the Jam Handy Organization. Although I have a feeling we may now be a generation far enough removed that many of them may no longer know it.

Re: How Differential Steering Works (1937) [video]

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Post by jdnier »

Animats wrote: post #7

It's part of a series for Chevrolet by Jam Handy. The Internet Archive has many more of them. A few: "Streamlines": https://archive.org/details/0142_Streamlines_M7960_09_08_44_... "Down the Gasoline Trail": https://archive.org/details/0542_Down_the_Gasoline_Trail_06_... "What Stops Them": https://archive.org/details/0797_What_Stops_Them_M6850_06_27... "No Ghosts": https://archive.org/details/0797_No_Ghosts_M7860_06_1…

Wikipedia on Jam Handy (olympic swimmer as well as educational film maker): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_Handy
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