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 When you think of celebrities and cars who comes to your mind? Some people might think of Shahrukh Khan for his Hyundai Commercial, and Brie Larson for her Nissan commercial. But I have a different name for you Muhammad Ali yeah that is Muhammad Ali! The legendary boxer, the Civil rights activist, and every college freshman dorm had a photo of him standing over Sonny Liston. But did you know that he owned a car company based out of Brazil? Tape up your hands and buckle up because this story will float like a butterfly and sting like a bee!

Muhammad Ali | Ali stinger | Puma GT

First of all, how does somebody like Mohammed Ali and a small Brazilian car company like Puma meet? To find out, we need to do a little bit of backtracking to answer questions like this: what is Puma? what kind of car was it? How did Muhammad Ali get involved?


    Industrialization in Brazil

    Will first need to take a brief look history of the car industry in Brazil. Pre-1956 Brazil was mostly an agricultural Nation whose main export was coffee. The only notable thing related to the car industry was that Ford had been there since 1919 assembling Model T’s in Sao Paulo. However, during the 1950s, the Brazilian government made efforts to industrialize the country, and one of the big steps they took to achieve that was to encourage domestic car production. 

    Brazil applied heavy import taxes on vehicles that were not produced in the country and banned import altogether for a long time, and to be Frank, these import taxes and bans worked!  To avoid these new hurdles, General Motors, Toyota and Volkswagen would all soon build their factories within Brazil, but before the foreign companies set up shop this burgeoning industry also accelerated the creation of local Brazilian automakers and they were a little different as well. These first Brazilian car companies were mostly of the specialty in kit car variety. 

    One of these cars for the DKW Malzoni was built in Sao Paulo and gained popularity rather quickly.

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     It's hard to believe that the mere presence of a constant low and high temperature can result in pulsating motion, but then along comes the genius mind of Robert Stirling. The inventor of the Stirling Engine.

    Robert Stirling | Invention of Stirling Engine


      What is the Stirling engine?

      The Stirling engine is an engaging device that converts a temperature difference into mechanical work. Hot water near the hot side and room temperature on the cold side is enough to make it work.

      How does Stirling Engine Work?

      This exciting device is known as Stirling Engine. To understand how this device works or how Mr. Stirling's mind worked at the time of this invention. To start, separate the hot-cold plates, within the insulating material. Let's introduce a thick insulating cylinder called the displacer, if the displacer is at the bottom it will obviously prevent the heat flow from the bottom plate which means the majority of the air undergoes heat transfer you the upper cold plate, and the air volume approach is the surrounding air temperature. 

      If the displacer is moved up the exact reverse will happen and the air will heat up when the air temperature inside this volume increases its pressure also increases. Robert Stirling's next brilliant idea was to use this high pressure to run a power system, the same power piston can move the displacer up or down. 

      Mechanism of Stirling engine:

      Let's see how he achieved it practically to achieve this objective Robert Stirling connected one more Crank on the same rotating shaft of the power piston, this time at a 90-degree offset to the first crank now this crank is connected to the displacer, he also added a flywheel in the shaft the use of which we will come to know later. Now let's see how this arrangement achieves the robot sterling's objectives when the bottom plate of the engine is heated up. 

      Working of Stirling engine:

      How does Stirling engine works

      Let's start with the power piston's lowest position if you check the position of the displacer it is almost in the middle the air obviously gets heated so its pressure increases which move the piston up. While observing the displacer clearly during the upward piston motion the displacer moves up and supports the additional heat from the hot plate, the displacer prevents the cold heat transfer during this motion which means that during the upward piston motion the air's temperature and pressure keep increasing and the piston extracts the energy. 

      However, after reaching the top the displacer is again in the middle which means that the heated air can lose heat to the cold plate obviously this process reduces the pressure of the air volume due to the momentum of a big flywheel, the piston will now start its downward journey during which the air loses progressively more heat and pressure, therefore, the piston is downward motion happens without much difficulty after the piston reaches the bottom position we are back at the starting point and the cycle repeats.

      What happens when the Stirling engine is kept on a cube of ice?

      Driving Stirling engine from an ice cube

      It's a beautiful way of producing reciprocating motion, isn't it? Now you can predict how this machine will behave if we keep an ice block below it, here the inside air temperature and pressure become lesser than the atmospheric temperature and pressure the low pressure inside the chamber means the force acting on the piston will be in the downward direction, so the piston has to move down this way the engine rotates in the opposite direction. 

      How efficient is the Stirling engine?

      In short, this engine will keep on working unless and until there is a temperature difference between the two plates. The greater the temperature difference the greater the engine speed and power output. 

      Compared to other internal combustion engines of the same power Stirling engines have more efficiency, and the thermal efficiency is comparable to small engines. Stirling engines have an amazing energy conversion efficiency. 

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       The brake is what makes it possible for humans to control motor vehicles and stop quickly. For over a century, braking systems have evolved into more complex devices to adapt to different load conditions.

      All about brakes | working of brakes

      They are a key part of the amazing technology that is the automobile which top to break has transformed greatly over time.



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