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.
On December 14, 1780 at the Schuyler Mansion, Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler were married. They had met not even a year before. Shortly after their honeymoon, Hamilton and Washington were stationed in New Windsor. Eliza left not long after Hamilton and joined him in New Windsor.