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Letho, Steve Chrysler's Turbine Car: the Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation

Introduction

In this automotive era of timid golf carts formed by computerized wind tunnels, it is very hard to visualize a time when the roads of the United States boomed with Electras, Galaxies, and Rocket 88s. The designs and drawings of these 1950s and 1960s iron gigantics were stimulated by the space race and the rising of jet travel. There was a car manufacturing company which was even courageous enough to place a jet engine in an automobile, and that is the subject of "Chrysler's Turbine Car" by Steve Lehto's which is a pleasant history of, as the slogan has it: "The Rise and Fall of Detroit's Coolest Creation" (Niedermeyer, 2010).

Discussion

The writer, a Michigan legal representative, has previously written on the subject of a mass assassination in that state, thus it is conceivably apt that he would go back to the subject matter of premature downfall. The sufferer this time is a thought that never achieved the complete gauge of years it in all probabilities deserved.

Turbine engines designed for aircraft have been around from the time when the German Luftwaffe started conducting experiments with them in the late 1930s. Not like internal combustion piston engines that depend on a multifaceted composition of mechanical steps to form energy, the uncomplicated turbine forms great thrust by incessantly producing hot gases that go out from the engine at extremely high speeds (Lehto & Leno, p.23). Turbines were loud and difficult to control, tossing down vast amounts of air and fuel. Nobody thought they could ever be controlled or made little adequate to be realistic in an automobile.

Then came along George Huebner, the hero of the book, a slightly and charming egomaniacal Chrysler engineer who would come out, Zelig-like, ...