The crankshaft is located below the cylinders on an in-line engine, at the base of the V on a V-type engine and between the cylinder banks on a flat engine. As the pistons move up and down, they turn the crankshaft just like your legs pump up and down to turn the crank that is connected to the pedals of a bicycle.
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. by. Hamilton, Elizabeth Schuyler (9 Aug. 1757-9 Nov. 1854), statesman's wife and charity worker, was born in Albany, New York, the second daughter of Philip Schuyler, a revolutionary war general, and Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler.
1750s She meets James Hamilton. 1757 : Alexander Hamilton is born on Nevis. 1763: The Seven Years' War ends. 1765: Rachel and James Hamilton move to St. Croix; James Hamilton abandons his family. Stamp Act Congress protests British tax. 1766: Alexander Hamilton begins clerking at Beekman and Cruger (later Kortright and Cruger), in Christiansted, St. Croix.