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...shortest, of all the roads to victory. Even if the Nazi legions stood triumphant on the Black Sea, or indeed, upon the Caspian; even if Hitler was at the gates of India, it would profit him nothing if at the same time the entire economic and scientific apparatus of German war power lay shattered and pulverized at home...
With Warner busy on sky-gazing apparatus, Swasey had equal success with machine tools. Working with Pratt & Whitney, machine-tool builders in Hartford, Toolmaker Swasey sweated far into hot summer nights inventing the epicycloidal milling machine for producing true gear curves. This made possible today's silent automobile gears. Swasey also im proved brass-working machines and turret lathes. W. & S. now makes 60% of all U. S. turret lathes. Widely used to turn out other machine tools, the W. & S. turret lathe is at the heart of the defense program...
...apparatus will be intricate and the experiment laborious. Says Dr. Darwin: "Each successive stage in producing cold has called for greater efforts and has on the whole produced less results." But scientists may find that at a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero, certain sub stances become permanent magnets ; they may find nothing. They do not know for sure what they will find, and that is the lure. If England survives they will keep going...
...apparatus which wakes a drowsing automobile driver by blowing ammonia vapor into his face when he relaxes his grip on the wheel...
...apparatus to prevent windstorms from taking off roofs by vacuum suction (a falling barometer switches on a motor which raises flaps on the roof, spoiling a possible vacuum...