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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  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

Nonfiction cross-reference

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