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[bcp]

How did the "monkey wrench" get it's name?

Debatable. I looked it up once. Variation of possible inventor's name, or application of the common term "monkey motion" for things with moving parts, compared to a non-adjustable wrench.

Bruce

 

[sixdogs]

Debatable. I looked it up once. Variation of possible inventor's name, or application of the common term "monkey motion" for things with moving parts, compared to a non-adjustable wrench.

Bruce

Last I recall it was widely accepted that it was named after the inventor. Something like Monquay or whatever.

 

[bcp]

Monkey wrench:

World Wide Words: Monkey wrench

Bruce

 

[sixdogs]

Monkey wrench:

World Wide Words: Monkey wrench

Bruce

That is a wonderful article. Guess we'll never know.

 

[Redneck in training]

If you start with a penny and double the total every day for a month, how much money do you wind up with?

a) $26,210
b) $262,100
c) over a million dollars

10,737,418.24 in 31 days
It takes 28 days to reach over million.

 

[crash325]

The family stayed in Dulce NM for a few months in about 1962. At that time there was a narrow gauge RR that came through & served the town. Don't remember how often it came through. But it was a big deal when it did.

The old RR has been restored & is now a big deal tourist thing and my understanding is that it is real busy.

There is a river that separates the town from the Indian reservation on opposite sides. Had a little wooden bridge in those days.

The town of Dulce it's self has become a very popular place for a certain type of tourist.

What is the big deal that draws those folks there???

 

[Leejohn]

How did the "monkey wrench" get it's name?

Because it looks like a monkey with a big smile!!!!!!!

You guys take the fun out of this by looking everything up, it would be more fun if you would guess if you don't know.

 

[Redneck in training]

How much money would you have today if you would invest of today's $100 in the first day when stock market opened in Philadelphia and earn the historical gain 8%?
How much money would you have today if you would invest of today's $100 in the first day when stock market opened in Philadelphia and then always picked the best investment possible?
How much money would you have today if you would invest gold worth today's $100 in the first day when stock market opened in Philadelphia?

 

[sixdogs]

10,737,418.24 in 31 days
It takes 28 days to reach over million.

Another winner.

Last time I did the math I thought it was a whisker over $1 million at 31 days but this is close enough for government work.

 

[k0ua]

What year was the transistor invented? I would accept as correct the normally recognized answer or the 22 years prior discovery.

 

[Redneck in training]

1.) How much money would you have today if you would invest of today's $100 in the first day when stock market opened in Philadelphia and earn the historical gain 8%?
2.) How much money would you have today if you would invest of today's $100 in the first day when stock market opened in Philadelphia and then always picked the best investment possible?
3.) How much money would you have today if you would invest gold worth today's $100 in the first day when stock market opened in Philadelphia?

Philadelphia stock market opened 1790.
1.) If you invested $100 at January 1, 1790 and earned 8%/year you would have $3,068,465,389.62 at December 31, 2014. Not adjusted for inflation.
Adjusted for assumed 3.2% US historical inflation you would have $3,638,541.34. People worry about taxes but it is inflation, if it picks up, that wipes out you nest egg.

2.) I read somewhere you could buy the whole USA about 3 times over.

3.) Anywhere between $80 and $400.Adjusted for inflation. Gold is terrible investment.

 

[turnkey4099]

Philadelphia stock market opened 1790.
1.) If you invested $100 at January 1, 1790 and earned 8%/year you would have $3,068,465,389.62 at December 31, 2014. Not adjusted for inflation.
Adjusted for assumed 3.2% US historical inflation you would have $3,638,541.34. People worry about taxes but it is inflation, if it picks up, that wipes out you nest egg.

2.) I read somewhere you could buy the whole USA about 3 times over.

3.) Anywhere between $80 and $400.Adjusted for inflation. Gold is terrible investment.

Yep, the first time Gold took a run up to somewhere near but under $1,000 I had a broker call me (cold call) and try to tout gold as a good investment. After stringing him along for awhile I told him "give me a call when gold is back around $300 where it belongs" Him: $300!! never. the next week the crash came and it was selling in the $300 range. I have no idea why I picked that number. He never called back for some reason.

Harry K

Harry K

 

[vtsnowedin]

Philadelphia stock market opened 1790.
1.) If you invested $100 at January 1, 1790 and earned 8%/year you would have $3,068,465,389.62 at December 31, 2014. Not adjusted for inflation.
Adjusted for assumed 3.2% US historical inflation you would have $3,638,541.34. People worry about taxes but it is inflation, if it picks up, that wipes out you nest egg.

2.) I read somewhere you could buy the whole USA about 3 times over.

3.) Anywhere between $80 and $400.Adjusted for inflation. Gold is terrible investment.

If you invested $100 dollars in 1790 you would be long dead by now and somebody else would have scarfed up your money.

 

[k0ua]

If you invested $100 dollars in 1790 you would be long dead by now and somebody else would have scarfed up your money.

Good point... When I was a kid you could buy Mausers for $12 mail order. Try to find one now. Should have bought a train car load, and you could have. Heck if you invested in almost anything years ago, you would be well off now.

 

[crash325]

Lets have some fun for a while.

What car company took a large v8 engine, basically cut it in 1/2 to make a 4 cylinder engine????

 

[houstonscott]

Lets have some fun for a while. What car company took a large v8 engine, basically cut it in 1/2 to make a 4 cylinder engine????

The only V4 production car I can think of is a Lancia Fluvia from the 1960's, and I don't think that engine was a product from cutting a Lancia V8 in half. You might be confused what cutting an engine in half means. Families of engines with straight fours, straight 6's, V8's, and V12's sharing, heads, pistons, connecting rods, has been around for decades, they are not products of cutting engines in half length wise. HS

 

[crash325]

The only V4 production car I can think of is a Lancia Fluvia from the 1960's, and I don't think that engine was a product from cutting a Lancia V8 in half. You might be confused what cutting an engine in half means. Families of engines with straight fours, straight 6's, V8's, and V12's sharing, heads, pistons, connecting rods, has been around for decades, they are not products of cutting engines in half length wise. HS

Sorry Huston.
It was an American maker & they used it to make a smaller car. It was a v8 cut length wise. Massive bore of over 4" if memory is correct.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Sorry Huston.
It was an American maker & they used it to make a smaller car. It was a v8 cut length wise. Massive bore of over 4" if memory is correct.

I at first thought it was the famous Chrysler Corp. Slant six, but six is not equal to four, and I believe after thinking about it, that was a ground up design that had some technical advantages in the slant six configuration.

 

[bcp]

I'm thinking Pontiac and IH made half of a V8.

Bruce

PS: I4, not V4

 

[Leejohn]

Well I'm going say GM because that is just about what they did to make a V6. I always though the 4cyl was 1st made for a truck and couldn't hold up in them, so they used the 4cyls other places.