The gasoline engine and the forklift

Earth parallel: 1885–1925. Goal: an engine light enough to carry itself, and the machines it makes possible on the road, in the field and in the warehouse.

Years 51–6420 entries0 procedures written

ID	Achievement	Thread	Built on	About year
17.01	Spark pluga spark jumps a small gap inside the cylinder at the right instant	Making	11.08 11.48 12.06 14.09	51
17.02	Carburettormixes a fine spray of gasoline into the air the engine draws in	Making	10.25 11.36 12.26	51
17.03	Gasoline engine ⚠the fuel burns inside the cylinder itself: far more power for its weight than steam, and it starts in a moment	Making	11.36 11.38 12.11 12.15 12.18 13.07 14.13 17.01 17.02	52
17.04	Two-stroke enginea small light engine without valves that fires at every turn	Making	15.10 17.03	53
17.05	Gasoline motor car and lorry ⚠the engine on a road chassis, with clutch, gearbox and driven axle: people and goods anywhere a road goes	Making	12.15 15.10 15.12 15.15 15.17 17.03	54
17.06	Electric starter and vehicle lightsa battery turns the engine over and lights the road at night	Making	14.16 14.26 14.46 15.18 17.05	55
17.07	Fuel pump and filling stationgasoline kept underground and measured into each tank	Making	11.36 11.40 12.26 17.05	55
17.08	Motorcyclea small engine in a bicycle frame	Making	15.11 15.14 17.04	55
17.09	Motor busa long lorry chassis with seats: the first public transport by road	Making	15.13 17.05	56
17.10	Motor ambulancethe sick and the injured reach the hospital in minutes	Health	15.41 17.05	56
17.11	Motor fire enginea pump driven by the lorry's own engine, with hose and ladders	Home	11.40 13.20 15.32 17.05	56
17.12	Diesel engine ⚠air squeezed until it is hot enough to fire the fuel by itself: no spark, heavy oil, great pulling power	Making	11.35 12.18 17.03	57
17.13	Oil-hydraulic cylinder and pumpoil under pressure pushes a ram: the muscle of every later machine	Making	11.38 11.40 12.18 12.27 15.09	57
17.14	Farm tractorpulls the plough and drives the thresher: one person does the work of ten horses	Food	08.06 12.32 15.07 17.03	57
17.15	Tipper lorrythe load is tipped out by a hydraulic ram	Making	17.05 17.13	58
17.16	Palleta flat timber deck that lets a whole load be lifted at once	Making	09.10 12.30	58
17.17	Forklifta small truck with two steel forks on a mast: one driver stacks what twenty people carried	Making	15.11 15.18 17.13 17.16	59
17.18	Crawler tractor and bulldozer ⚠tracks in place of wheels and a steel blade in front: earth moved for roads, dams and airfields	Making	15.05 17.12 17.13 17.14	60
17.19	Portable air compressoran engine and a compressor on wheels: air tools at any building site	Making	13.23 16.12 17.03	60
17.20	Chain saw ⚠a toothed chain driven round a bar by a small engine: a tree felled in minutes	Making	06.15 15.11 17.04	62