The brainchild of Dr. Ernst Fuhrmann, later Technical Director, it was hoped to achieve an " unheard of " per, relying on hemispherical combustion chambers ( what would be called hemi in the U. S .) and-throat 46IDA3 three-choke Weber carburetors to generate from the four-cam engine.

The term fisheye was coined in 1906 by American physicist and inventor Robert W. Wood based on how a fish would see an ultra-wide hemispherical view from beneath the water ( a phenomenon known as Snell's window ).

In 1942-43, a range of configurations was considered and it was concluded that, for good breathing and high bmep, the new engines would need vee-opposed valves operating in hemispherical combustion chambers.

In the later 17th century Baroque form of mitral crown of Leopold I: File: Kaiser-Leopold1. jpg the peaks of the mitre have been rounded into the hemispherical form Peter the Great would adopt as the Imperial Crown of Russia when he took the title emperor as Russian sovereign.

The dome of the Great Mosque of Kairouan ( also called the Mosque of Uqba ) built in the first half of the 9th century, has a ribbed hemispherical dome which rests on an octogonal drum with slightly concave sides.

The hemispherical shape mimicked the familiar shape of the gourd vessels that were also very important.

Hemispherical cylinder heads have been used since at least 1901 ; they were used by the Belgian car maker Pipe in 1905, the Peugeot Grand Prix Car of 1912 and the Alfa Romeo Grand Prix car of 1914 both were four valve engines also, Daimler, and Riley were also using hemispherical combustion chambers.

A kippah or kipa ( ; or ; plural: kippot or ), also known as a yarmulke ( or from ), kapele (), is a hemispherical or platter-shaped cap, usually made of cloth, often worn by Orthodox Jewish men to fulfill the customary requirement held by some orthodox halachic authorities that their head be covered at all times, and usually worn by men and, less frequently, women in Conservative and Reform communities at times of prayer.

The Aries was powered by a then-new 2. 2 L I4 SOHC engine, with a Mitsubishi " Silent Shaft " 2. 6 L as an option ( curiously this engine also featured hemispherical combustion chambers, and all 1981 Aries equipped with it featured " HEMI " badges on the front fenders ).

The zucchetto ( Italian: " small gourd ") is a small, hemispherical, form-fitting ecclesiastical skullcap, worn by clerics of the Roman Catholic Church and also used by the higher clergy in Anglicanism as well as in the Eastern Orthodox Church tradition.

These types of lenses also have other applications such as re-projecting images filmed through a fisheye lens, or created via computer generated graphics, onto a hemispherical screens.

A hemispherical enclosure will also guide whispering gallery waves.

This change allows the fuel air mixture to more easily enter the hemispherical combustion chamber and also allows the exhaust port velocity to more effectively scavenge the cylinder and reduce reversion pulses.

The pieces, found carefully stowed under a large plate for protection as they were being buried in a shallow pit, consist of six plates, two patens, three unmarked hemispherical chalices, a pyx with its cover, also unmarked, two strainers, a small ladle and nine spoons of purely domestic character.

A latte stone, or simply latte ( also latde ), is the term for a pillar ( Chamorro language: haligi ) capped by a hemispherical stone capital ( tasa ) with the flat side facing up.

His most convincing work was done on the camphoraceous odor, for which he posited a hemispherical socket in which spherical molecules, such as camphor, cyclooctane, and naphthalene could bind.

* 1909: The prechamber with a hemispherical combustion chamber was developed by Prosper L ' Orange with Benz.

Most large submarines consist of a cylindrical body with hemispherical ( and / or conical ) ends and a vertical structure, usually located amidships, which houses communications and sensing devices as well as periscopes.

The manufacture involves the cleaning, bleaching, stretching on a frame ( a “ herse ”), and scraping of the skin with a hemispherical knife ( a “ lunarium ” or “ lunellum ”).

The general programme is sculptural but tightly integrated, rich but balanced, consistently carried through, capping its vertical thrust firmly with a ribbed and hemispherical dome.

It was an air-cooled, flat-twin, four-stroke, 375 cc engine with pushrod operated overhead valves and a hemispherical combustion chamber.

The death cap has a large and imposing epigeous ( aboveground ) fruiting body ( basidiocarp ), usually with a pileus ( cap ) from 5 to 15 cm ( 2 – 6 in ) across, initially rounded and hemispherical, but flattening with age.

In the 1930s, Duesenberg used an aluminium alloy cylinder block with four valves per cylinder and hemispherical heads to produce the most powerful engine on the market.

Æbleskiver are cooked on the stove top by baking in a special cast iron pan with several hemispherical indentations.

The ceramic vessels found at all of the sites were dark brown and black with dark clouding on both the inside and outside and had a hemispherical shape.

The shape was hemispherical with a ring base and a hole for venting the fire and releasing smoke.

Both are made with a takoyaki pan, a type of frying pan or cooktop with many hemispherical molds.

The dentition of the black-footed ferret closely resembles that of the European and steppe polecat, though the back lower molar is vestigial, with a hemispherical crown which is too small and weak to develop the little cusps which are more apparent in polecats.

He increased its height with a system of two domes: a small truncated cone on top of the hemispherical dome.

Many engineering changes were required during construction, including the modest flattening of the supposed " hemispherical roof " to cope with environmentally-induced structural deformation and the use of a new paving process called " lime stabilization " to cope with changes in the chemistry of the soil.

It consisted of a hemispherical bowl which had a vertical gnomon placed inside it, with the top of the gnomon level with the edge of the bowl.

They evolved into large hemispherical mounds with features such as the torana ( gateway ), the vedica ( fence-like enclosure evolved from the vedic villages ), the harmika ( a square platform with railings on top of the stupa ), chattrayashti ( the parasol or canopy ) and a circumambulatory around the stupa.

It is first hemispherical in shape before flattening out with maturity, and 5 – 10 cm ( 2 – 4 in ) in diameter.

The top of the sample was nearly flat and the bottom hemispherical.

Furthermore, the forehead has two hemispherical bulges, unlike the flat front of the African elephant.

In Romanesque, Byzantine and Gothic Christian abbey, cathedral and church architecture, the term is applied to a semi-circular or polygonal termination of the main building at the liturgical east end ( where the altar is ), regardless of the shape of the roof, which may be flat, sloping, domed, or hemispherical.

The hemispherical dome on a tall octagonal drum, first of its type in France, has four small cupolas in the angles of the Greek cross above the two Corinthian orders on the façade, of full columns below, flat pilasters above.

The cap is hemispherical when young, later flat.

This mushroom has an orange-red cap, initially hemispherical before convex and finally flat.

Similar to this is the hemispherical cavity, with one plane mirror and one mirror of curvature equal to the cavity length.

It consisted of four hemispherical cups each mounted on one end of four horizontal arms, which in turn were mounted at equal angles to each other on a vertical shaft.

The flow initially produces an approximately hemispherical cavity.

Instead, they advance by eruptive waves, where hemispherical bulges appear from the front margin of the cell, which is clear.

This was a heavy duty replacement for the original pressure sphere ( made in Italy by Acciaierie Terni ) and was manufactured in three finely-machined sections: an equatorial ring and two hemispherical caps.

The concentric hemispherical analyser ( CHA ) is a typical electron energy analyzer, and uses an electric field to change the directions of incident electrons, depending on their kinetic energies.

The UTIAS explosive-driven-implosion facility was used to produce stable, centered and focused hemispherical implosions to generate neutrons from D-D reactions.

By 1886, the German Gustav Bloem of Düsseldorf, Germany had obtained a U. S. patent for hemispherical cavity metal detonators to concentrate the effect of the explosion in an axial direction.

All objects in the observer's sky can be thought of as projected upon the inside surface of the celestial sphere, as if it were the underside of a dome or a hemispherical screen.

Local newspapers made a fuss when Gilbert sent to Georgia for marble, but the result, in which a hemispherical dome caps a high drum not unlike that of St. Peter's Basilica, crowning a building housing the bicameral legislature and the state supreme court, was so nobly handsome that West Virginia and Arkansas contracted for Gilbert capitols as well.

In August 1923, the first ( Model I ) Zeiss planetarium projected images of the night sky onto the white plaster lining of a 16 m hemispherical concrete dome, erected on the roof of the Zeiss works.

The word planetarium, has been captured and now usually refers to hemispherical theatres in which images of the night sky are projected onto an overhead surface.

On 11 July 1893, after many failures and near bankruptcy, he was able to create the hemispherical cultured pearls.

Mikimoto had received a patent in 1896 for producing hemispherical pearls, or mabes, and a 1908 patent for culturing in mantle tissue, but he could not use the Mise-Nishikawa method without invalidating his own patents.

The acorns, borne in a shallow, thin cap, are hemispherical, 10-16 mm long and 9-15 mm broad, green maturing pale brown about 18 months after pollination.

The mundus cerialis ( literally " the world " of Ceres ) was a hemispherical pit or underground vault in Rome ; Cato describes its shape as a reflection or inversion of the dome of the upper heavens.

The form of a Sumerian temple is manifestation of Near Eastern cosmology, which described the world as a disc of land which was surrounded by a salt water ocean, both of which floated on another sea of fresh water called apsu, above them was a hemispherical firmament which regulated time.

Both ends were hemispherical, and were 13 inches long and 7 inches in diameter.