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.
Elizabeth and Alexander Hamilton had eight children: Philip (January 22, 1782 â November 23, 1801), who was killed in a duel three years before his father's fatal duel Angelica (September 25, 1784 â February 6, 1857), suffered a mental breakdown after her older brother's death, and lived to the age of 72 in a state described as eternal childhood, unable to care for herself