Re: Aluminium Pistons Who Was First?

Posted by BigKev On 2007/12/27 19:37:51

Lets keep it nice boys. No need to drag personal ghosts from the past into this.

I think the main point of this thread about aluminum pistons, and who was the first manufacturer to use them.

We should qualify the claim a little bit first. Is it the first US production car to use them. Or the is it "Two guys and a Wrench" Garage and Yak-Shearing in Outer Mongolia that happened to use them in some cobbled together farm machinery that never went into production.

Perhaps the Packard claims should fit into the "First US Production Vehicle too.....blah blah blah" catagory. I think will help to put some structure around this a bit.

It's one thing to invent the technology, it's another thing to make it viable in a production environment.

To make a point, Antonio Meucci was recognised as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress, in its resolution 269 dated 11 June 2002 ("if Meucci had been able to pay the $10 fee to maintain the caveat after 1874, no patent could have been issued to Bell").

Why we all know the name Alexander Bell, who here would actual know the name Antonio Meucci if it was tossed out at random?