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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knows the reputation of Wright Whirlwind and Cyclone motors, as they know the reputation of Pratt & Whitney Wasp and Hornet motors. But relatively few know the practical advantages of those motors. So Wright Aeronautical told the many unknowing ones in great advertisements that its $25-h. p. Cyclone is built for the great air lines and heavy-duty express planes, its 3OO-h. p. Whirlwind for multi-motored passenger carriers, its 225-h. p. Whirlwind for medium-sized passenger planes, its 150-h. p. Whirlwind for small runabout planes. Topping those advertisements, Wright's then announced that they would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chicago Show | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

British shipbuilding, long depressed, is active again, with Clyde, Mersey and Tyne River shipyards expecting an active winter. Clyde shipyards have contracts for 30 vessels, including the Empress of Britain, a 40,000-ton liner to be built for Canadian Pacific. Seven whaling ships, one of 20,000 tons, are building for Norwegian whalers, which are rapidly driving British whalers from the Antarctic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Index: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

...intelligence is only apparent," explained Mr. Wenslely; "it of course has no brain, and it can only do certain things under certain conditions worked out previously by a human mind. The machine was built at the Westinghouse Laboratories to answer a definite need, but, unfortunately the publicity department heard about it, and what started out as a serious invention has turned into a vaudeville act. Televox now has three brothers who are being shown in different parts of the country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mechanical Man Throws Electric Switches at Sound of Its Inventor's Voice--Televox Developed for Remote Control | 12/14/1928 | See Source »

...gold greens will be built on Soldiers Field during the spring as a result of action taken at the last meeting of the Harvard Athletic Committee, it was learned last night. The greens will be located in the north-east corner of the field behind the Freshman gridirons and will have sufficient space to allow various iron shots...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUTTING GREENS ON SOLDIERS FIELD TO BE READY IN SPRING | 12/12/1928 | See Source »

...Built for Northern Pacific Railroad, built by American Locomotive Co., the most powerful locomotive in the world will soon be completed. Generating 6,000 horsepower, it could pull, over a level track, a train two miles long. For its thirst it requires 14,400 gallons of water per hour; for its hunger, 20 tons of coal in the same period. Its firebox is the size of a portable garage. With its tender, it weighs one million pounds and is as long as half a city block. Designed chiefly for work on steep grades, it will haul across the Rockies trains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Locomotives | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

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