Plimpton engine

This modern Plimpton engine has been retrofitted into a hydrogen bubble chamber.

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

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  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.

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  Hydrogen bubble chamber must be useful for something, reasons the ever-curious George Plimpton.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• The Noel Harrison Sensation
• Thank You, George Plimpton
• Three Days of the Sundance Kid

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Being John Malkovich (nonfiction)
• Engine (nonfiction)
• George Plimpton (nonfiction)
• John Malkovich (nonfiction)