Word: braking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most radical mechanical change" is "the widening of the transmission brake band by ⅝ of an inch." The engine remains unchanged. The chassis has been markedly lowered, as in Le Ford Francais - the company's French product...
...automobile was Inventor Francis P. Houdina's American Wonder, controlled by radio waves sent from a following car. Two sets of waves were used, caught by antennae on the Wonder's tonneau, introduced to circuit-breakers operating small electric motors, which in turn operated steering wheel, clutch, brake, gears, horn...
...autobiography afforded him a ledge to cling to tem- porarily. Then that crumbled and he dreamed dizzily of himself as im- prisoned by the Winkelbergs, craning out of a lopsided tenement win- dow in a nightcap, blowing kisses into infinity. He left Stella, strug- gled a while to brake his racing thoughts, then blew his tired brains...
...pioneer stage of the motorcar business is past. Now the changes in models are not so much genuine mechanical improvements as "selling points." This Spring the balloon tire and the four-wheel brake were novelties; now they are practically standard equipment. With the present new crop of "latest models," the chief feature consists in selling eight-cylinder cars in the moderate price field, and selling sixes at or under the existing prices for fours. The last Buick is such a six-cylinder model. What tomorrow's "new feature" will be, no one knows, least of all the manufacturers themselves...
...celebrating the 40th anniversary of the entrance of George Westinghouse* into the electrical field, some interesting facts concerning that inventor and organizer and the company which now bears his name, came to light. In 1869, when only 23 years old, Westinghouse patented his air brake for stopping trains - now standard equipment for railways all over the world. The young inventor soon became fascinated by the possibilities of electricity, as developed by Bell, Edison and others. In 1880 he founded the Westinghouse Machine Co. for the manufacture of high speed engines to drive dynamos for arc lighting. He controlled the Union...