Word: poppets
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This Knox annoyed Mr. Knight with the noise its poppet valves made. He tinkered with it; thought; devised the sleeve-valve principle...
...motor makers scorned his invention. They preferred the poppet valve system of George B. Selden (1845-1922) of Rochester, even though they had to pay royalties on his alleged basic patents...
...little machines will be in three models-a two-door coach and two-seat coupé (both $735 f.o.b. factory) ; a touring car ($645). They have a four-cylinder, small-bore, poppet-valve engine of 15 horsepower on a 4% in. stroke. Their wheelbase is that of the Ford and Chevrolet, 100 in. The overall height is 5 ft., 8 in. with a low centre of gravity due to an 8% in. axle-clearance and the standard 56 in. tread. Tiny balloon tires, smaller even than Ford balloons, have been furnished by Fisk...
...cover. (He is evidently close enough to graduation to feel premonitory twinges of graduate loyalty.) We can fairly see the Cambridge-longing in the mind of the solid citizen, who still must trail clouds of academic glory behind him, though his infant ignore the faithful geese, and cast the poppet upon the daisypied field...