In these, valves are on the side of the combustion chamber, in the engine block, and fuel and air enter from the side and exhaust exits out the same side. A cross section of this type of combustion chamber looks like an upside down letter L. So, flatheads are sometimes known as L-head engines.
They are American iconsâthey're on our dollars and coins, they are the subject of our monuments, and we live our daily lives in the world their ideas helped create. America's Founding Fathers include George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, James Monroe and, of course, Benjamin Franklin.
And so it was that from that time until this, when we think of the American Revolution, even though we're not at all acquainted with the marvelous things that Franklin did in France, nonetheless what springs to mind among the founding fathers are the names Washington and Franklin.