Word: boilers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Colonel Edward Alfred Simmons, 56. publisher & rail expert; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Brooklyn. X. Y. He was president of Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corp. (Railway Age, Airway Age, Boiler Maker) and of American Saw Works, and board chairman of American Machine Tool...
...surrounding two cylinders with high pressure boilers, by filling the boiler coils with water and then sealing them hermetically, Engineer J. F. J. Malone of Newcastle-on-Tyne, England has made an effective heat engine. Last week he demonstrated...
...furnace heats the base of one boiler-cylinder to 900° F. (688° above water's boiling point). The superheated water expands (but cannot change to steam because it is too closely confined) and pushes a piston at the far end of this cylinder. Cold water or air, applied against the piston end of the boiler, cools the confined water sufficiently to make it contract and suck the piston back to its original position. The external cold water or air is shut off, the cooled water in the boiler coils passes into the second cylinder, and newly heated...
...Poland, Hungary, Jugoslavia, Bulgaria and Rumania. 1930 export figures for the "Little Five" are not yet available. *See table above: Canada exported in 1930 twice as much wheat as Russia. †Recipe (TIME, Dec. 8): two parts of whole wheat and one of whole rye cooked in a double boiler until the kernels of wheat burst open. Cooking requires from four to five hours...
Last week President Swayne attempted to set things right in the boiler-room. Stockholders will be asked to approve a $9,000,000 note issue. They will also be asked to approve of a voting trust. While the trustees have not been named, they will probably include representatives of Lehigh Valley Coal Corp. and Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Co., two big Burns creditors who desire to see Burns have good management at least until its bills are paid...