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[[File:Plimpton engine.jpg|thumb|This modern Plimpton engine has been retrofitted into a hydrogen bubble chamber.]]A '''Plimpton engine''' is | [[File:Plimpton engine.jpg|thumb|This modern Plimpton engine has been retrofitted into a hydrogen bubble chamber.]]A '''Plimpton engine''' is any of various types of [[Engine (nonfiction)|engine]] which use [[George Plimpton (nonfiction)|George Plimpton]] as a source of energy, control, or other properties. | ||
Plimpton engines are | Plimpton engines are a well-known class of [[Gnomon algorithms]]. | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
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File:Three Days of the Sundance Kid.jpg|link=Three Days of the Sundance Kid|'''''[[Three Days of the Sundance Kid]]''''' is an American Western thriller film starring Robert Redford as a bookish CIA researcher who comes back from lunch one day to discover that his co-workers have joined Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang and intend to kill him. | |||
File:Gnomon algorithm lair - KGJ - infographic.jpg|link=Life in a Gnomon Algorithm Lair|'''''[[Life in a Gnomon Algorithm Lair]]''''' is an autobiographical Gnomon algorithm equation computed by software developer and APTO consulting fabulist Karl Jones. | |||
File:Vessel_20210307_172145.jpg|link=Vessel|'''''[[Vessel]]'''''. | |||
File:Hydrogen_bubble_chamber.jpg|Hydrogen bubble chamber must be useful for ''something'', reasons the ever-curious [[George Plimpton]]. | File:Hydrogen_bubble_chamber.jpg|Hydrogen bubble chamber must be useful for ''something'', reasons the ever-curious [[George Plimpton]]. | ||
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* [[Gnomon algorithm]] | * [[Gnomon algorithm]] | ||
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | * [[Gnomon Chronicles]] | ||
* [[Life in a Gnomon Algorithm Lair]] | |||
* [[The Noel Harrison Sensation]] | * [[The Noel Harrison Sensation]] | ||
* [[Thank You, George Plimpton]] | |||
* ''[[Three Days of the Sundance Kid]]'' | |||
* ''[[Vessel]]'' | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | == Nonfiction cross-reference == | ||
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[[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:Fiction (nonfiction)]] | ||
[[Category:John | [[Category:John Malkovich (nonfiction)]] | ||
[[Category:George Plimpton (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:George Plimpton (nonfiction)]] | ||
[[Category:Engines]] | [[Category:Engines]] | ||
[[Category:Gnomon algorithm]] | [[Category:Gnomon algorithm]] | ||
Latest revision as of 05:16, 20 December 2022
A Plimpton engine is any of various types of engine which use George Plimpton as a source of energy, control, or other properties.
Plimpton engines are a well-known class of Gnomon algorithms.
History
Plimpton engines were famously invented by George Plimpton (nonfiction), upon accepting Noel Harrison (nonfiction)'s invitation to join him in The Noel Harrison Sensation.
In the News
Three Days of the Sundance Kid is an American Western thriller film starring Robert Redford as a bookish CIA researcher who comes back from lunch one day to discover that his co-workers have joined Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang and intend to kill him.
Life in a Gnomon Algorithm Lair is an autobiographical Gnomon algorithm equation computed by software developer and APTO consulting fabulist Karl Jones.
Hydrogen bubble chamber must be useful for something, reasons the ever-curious George Plimpton.
Fiction cross-reference
- Gnomon algorithm
- Gnomon Chronicles
- Life in a Gnomon Algorithm Lair
- The Noel Harrison Sensation
- Thank You, George Plimpton
- Three Days of the Sundance Kid
- Vessel