I was just half listening to Richard Hammond on BBC2 and I thought I heard him come up with the title subject statement.
I find it hard to believe!
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I picked up that error as well. I guessed that it was actually the supercharger, I would have thought that the hampster would have known the difference!
According to Wikipedia
The first functional supercharger can be attributed to German engineer Gottlieb Daimler, who received a German patent for supercharging an internal combustion engine in 1885. Louis Renault patented a centrifugal supercharger in France in 1902. An early supercharged race car was built by Lee Chadwick of Pottstown, Pennsylvania in 1908, which, it was reported, reached a speed of 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
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Edited by pmh2 on 09/03/2009 at 20:13
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>> picked up that error as well.
I saw that passage and I too furrowed my brow a bit. But assumed little Hammond had got it right with the backing of BBC researchers. What happened obviously was that the researchers thought he would know, but he didn't really.
Not all petrolheads really understand all the oily bits or even most of them. 'Cor, what'll she do mister?' writ pretentiously large in some cases...
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I always thought Louis Renault invented the supercharger in 1902, and the turbocharger followed a few years later by a Swiss engineer whose name escapes me.
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shortly after, Renault invented the Turbo oil seal failure!
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I thought that a bit odd too,surely one of the defining elements of the turbo is that it is driven by exhaust gasses,so not applicable to pumping gas from a rig.They seem to have the wrong timeslot for this programme,it should be on around tea time for older children.
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"it should be on around tea time for older children."....
The wife and I made a similar point (I'm not sure the kids need to be that old either). I quite like Hammond but he was talking to the camera as if addressing foreigners and kept repeating the simplest of phrases:
Expert: "Concrete is very good at resisting compression."
Hammond: "So if you compress concrete it's good at resisting it."
It's just the Beeb's spin on Brainiac. Some nice camera work though.
Edited by PST on 10/03/2009 at 10:07
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Thought the scale of that rig was amazing - especially dramatic looking up from the bottom of one of the feet. I'm sure it's safe, but not sure I'd want to be down there...
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I always thought Louis Renault invented the supercharger in 1902 and the turbocharger followed a few years later by a Swiss engineer whose name escapes me. Alfred Buchi was the Swiss engineer, patented the turbocharger in 1905.
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"half listening to Richard Hammond"
I've never even managed that much! His programme should be on CBeebies.
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I watched a bit of "RH's Blast Lab", as well as his "motoring" programmes. Someone at the Beeb must have the hots for him, 'cos the productions are absolutely cringe-makingly embarrassing, even in my 7-year-old's opinion.
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My 8-year old loved his programme on the Troll A gas rig on Sunday! And I have to say I quite liked it too!
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"shortly after, Renault invented the Turbo oil seal failure!"
Really appeals to my sense of humour. Yes it can be said that Renault are the market leaders in many major component failures.
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"shortly after Renault invented the Turbo oil seal failure!" Really appeals to my sense of humour. Yes it can be said that Renault are the market leaders in many major component failures.
Alas BL/Rover cornered the global market in Headgasket failure. It was a near monopoly.
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>>BL/Rover cornered the global market in Headgasket failure. It was a near monopoly.
Near, but not total - FIAT have a few too..
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The BBC are doing a Channel Five with this series - showing programmes which have been on Cable months before.
It was on National Geographic before Christmas. It was well advertised and I tuned in to the first show - after half an hour I was bored and didn't watch anymore. Something about the presentation style just didn't seem right and everything seemed to take an age to explain in a Mythbusters 'keep the audience hanging type approach' which I find really annoying.
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Maybe it's all to do with dumbing down TV.
just pray they don't get Hammond to present Horizon/Timewatch/Sky at Night or any other half decent documentary program.
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Richard Hammond is very child like in his outlook and it comes through in his presenting. It was interesting enough, the only engineering I wasnt aware of was how it was anchored to the sea bed.
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