Word: bevel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ancient with an inventive mind discovered by cutting off the butt end of a feather on a bevel that he had a tube shaped like a reed pen. It also served for writing; it was a quill pen. Who that ancient was no one, of course, knows. However, St. Isidore of Seville, in the early part of the 7th Century, remarked that he was writing his pages with both a kalamos made of a reed and a quill plucked from a bird. Writers used such quills?usually made from the stout wing feathers of the ever-present goose?into...
That the chassis is lower than ever, having in one case (Stutz) even returned to the silent, worm-drive form of rear axle which permits cars to be slung 5 in. lower than the bevel-gear type, without loss of headroom...