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.
WILLIAM HAMILTON was born about 1795 in North Carolina. He died in Nov 1850 in. Prob, Orange, Indiana, United States. He married Sarah McCulley, daughter of. John McCulley and Sarah Hurdle, on 12 Aug 1817 in Orange Co., NC.