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John Doerr • Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
A brilliantly conceived alternative-fuel vehicle will not succeed without the design and implementation of a refueling infrastructure over a large geographic area.
Matthew Frederick • 101 Things I Learned® in Engineering School
Programming as Theory Building
Ben Bowers • J.Crew’s ‘The Bear’ Collab Celebrates the Show’s Best Characters
Just as it was taking to the road, another German engineer, Carl Benz, was putting the finishing touches on a vehicle of his own. Benz, like Daimler and Maybach, had applied his experience in building stationary engines for factory use to develop a small internal combustion engine for use in road vehicles. He was a keen cyclist, but rather than
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Otto added several refinements to make Lenoir’s design more efficient and set up a company to sell his new engine for use in factories. In the years that followed Otto further improved the design, in particular by having the piston compress the fuel-air mixture before ignition (the engine ran on a type of petroleum spirit known as ligroin), and by
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