Turbo-encabulator

You may have heard of the infamous Turbo-encabulator. Then again, it's quite possible that you have not.  It is a fascinating piece of a machinery regardless of your familiarity.

Work has been proceeding in order to bring perfection to the crudely conceived idea of a machine that would not only supply inverse reactive current for use in unilateral phase detractors, but would also be capable of automatically synchronizing cardinal grammeters. Such a machine is the "Turbo-Encabulator."

The original machine had a base-plate of prefabulated amulite, surmounted by a malleable logarithmic casing in such a way that the two spurving bearings were in a direct line with the pentametric fan. The main winding was of the normal lotus-o-delta type placed in panendermic semi-boloid slots in the stator, every seventh conductor being connected by a nonreversible trem'e pipe to the differential girdlespring on the 'up' end of the grammeters.

Forty-one manestically spaced grouting brushes were arranged to feed into the rotor slipstream a mixture of high S-value phenylhydrobenzamine and 5% reminative tetryliodohexamine. Both of these liquids have specific pericosities given by P = 2.5C.n^6-7 where n is the diathetical evolute of retrograde temperature phase disposition and C is Cholmondeley's annular grillage coefficient. Initially, n was measured with the aid of a metapolar refractive pilfrometer, but up to the present date nothing has been found to equal the transcendental hopper dadoscope. Undoubtedly, the turbo-encabulator has now reached a very high level of technical development. It has been successfully used for operating nofer trunnions. In addition, whenever a barescent skor motion is required, it may be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocating dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration.

The turbo-encabulator originally appeared in a Time Magazine article on April 15, 1946.

Here's a great article on the Turbo-encabulator at Wikipedia complete with spec sheet.

There's a Chrysler video, from around '88-'90 featuring Bud Haggart that is hilarious. There's also a newer video produced by Rockwell Automation which features Mike Kraft, a freelance actor and writer and it is equally as funny.

Though the turboencabulator is completely made up, most of the brands and divisions mentioned in the two or three videos that were produced are accurately denoted. The equipment shown in the original video is a real front-wheel drive transaxle and diagnostic equipment, and the Rockwell video uses real parts supplied by Allen-Bradley, including the motor control center (MCC) that is being described as the retro-encabulator.

Though generators operate by the "relative motion of conductors and fluxes", the Retro-Encabulator is said to use the "modial interaction of magneto-reluctance and capacitive directance". As plausible as this may sound, the words "modial" and "directance" (some 65 years later) are still not in our english language.

Michael Bonville
Training Admin
GEN-TECH