Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from a mild case of paranoia. A brilliant British scientist, he had many ideas, carried few of them through to solid achievement. He invented a wheel barometer, conceived the idea of using a pendulum as a measure of gravity, helped famed Robert ("Boyle's Law") Boyle make his air pump. He clearly conceived the motion of heavenly bodies as a mechanical problem, but his conception was almost obliterated in the glory of Isaac Newton's formulation of the gravity laws. He was jealous of Newton, made violent attacks on him, resented all his life the fact that Newton...
...Compressed air is a ubiquitous tool in industry and transportation. Last fortnight a 35-year-old businessman of Phoenix, Ariz., L. V. Jones, convinced scientists at California Institute of Technology that he had found a way of compressing air more efficiently and cheaply than ever before. In practice, the compression of air generates heat which must be drawn off by water jackets. In the Jones device, there are no water jackets. The heat of the compressed air is removed by circulating oil and returned to the pump where it furnishes accessory driving energy. The same principle, Mr. Jones declared last...
...Have a Free Press? (Thurs. 9:30 p. m. NBC-Blue) debated by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, Publisher Frank E. Gannett before America's Town Meeting of the Air...
Charlie Babb got this idea for a flying freight car from the demands of Latin-American customers serving mines, lumber camps and industries in localities accessible only by air. Most of these use giant Curtiss Condors rebuilt as cargo ships. Now busy refitting six Condors to carry mahogany logs out of Yucatan's wilds, Babb hit on the idea of a unique Babb Special. It will have a wing span of 100 feet, twin motors and a cruising speed of 135 m.p.h. Its cargo space will be 35 feet long, 8½ feet wide, 9 feet deep. Through...
Said Mayor Wilson at week's end, still out for his monument: "We'll finish the job first and argue about it afterward." Meantime, Philadelphia air travelers still cross the river to Camden to emplane...