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...such superspeed been achieved? German engineers answered last week "chiefly by streamlining the Bremen's hull, by fitting her with a unique bulbous bow." Every layman knows that air friction against a raindrop causes it to assume a bulbous foreshape and to taper off behind-this being the form which offers least resistance to the air. With daring originality, the Bremen's designers gave her below the water line somewhat the shape of a falling raindrop; but above the water line her bow ceases to be bulbous, is keen as a bayonet edge. Luxury features of the Bremen...
...learn?and this idea would be natural to him?that M. Moreau-Vauthier is disposed to decorate with bulbous figures and cartouches, more or less baroque, guess what: the prows of our cruisers. The interior would be bad enough, but the exterior silhouet...
...inventions as well as in the market. To him, in a dream, came the vision of a trunk which should be a portable closet rather than a travelling chest of drawers. Awakening, Mr. Bonsall remembered his dream, built the first wardrobe trunk. It looked much like the old style bulbous trunks, but in its interior were racks for hangers, thus embodying the essential principle of the modern trunk in which clothing is hung rather than folded. In 1898 he organized Innovation Trunk Co., began the manufacture of the original wardrobe trunk...
...prob'ly born that way and couldn't help it. Engineer Chrysler gave little thought to Oelwein's farmers and automobilists but he went to the Chicago automobile show of 1905* and stood entranced in front of a beauteous white thingamajig with four doors, a bulbous horn and red leather upholstery. It was the 1905 Locomobile. The salesman said it cost $5,000 cash. Mr. Chrysler had $700 in the bank at Oelwein. He borrowed $4,300 and shipped it home...
...Germany have sat comfortably back in their planetaria (TIME, Feb. 13) and watched the earth move round the sun, the solar system gyrate. A lecturer has stood beside a colossal intricate mechanism, a steel cylindrical apparatus about 25 feet long with a great steel sphere at each end, bulbous with electric eyes. These were the stars and planets; each with its own motor to send it through any. desired orbit. Upon the huge domed ceiling, 75 feet across, the professor could project the sky as it looked to three shepherds of Judea on a certain cold night in December...