cylinder
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Car and Driver magazine said of the rare six-cylinder, “it takes on the characteristic Ferrari sounds despite having only half the number of cylinders.”
In the home, a rich family might have one of the new phonographs that played music stored on wax cylinders, but most families were still making their own music, using sheet music or songbooks.
The first recordings were made on metal cylinders.
But on another level, the market’s broadening out is a hopeful sign: A healthy bull market fires on all cylinders rather than just a few.
From MarketWatch
A variety of what’s known as forced induction, turbocharging increases the volume of air fed into the cylinders, thereby increasing power output.
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