I’m an EE and even I get the value of intercooling. These engines had the same basic configuration and the Allison actually had more displacement, but intercooling made all the difference. Not to toot horns but it really is interesting how much of a factor engineering has been in the story of civilization.
Well, EEs have something to live down in the development of the telegraph . . .It’s not the telegraph as such which is the problem, of course - it’s the killer app of the telegraph (other than the real biggie, command and control of the railroads) which is the problem. I speak, of course, of the wire service in general and the Associated Press in particular. Which set about making news reporting objective, and - tragically - ended up thinking it had actually succeeded in that.
Unfortunately, that decision implied ceasing to even try actually to be objective. Leaving journalism in a state of self-righteous “liberalism.”
Now, of course, EEs have redeemed their rep somewhat by creating the computer and the www. ;-)