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"Compression and Expansion of Gases," Professor Black, Jefferson Physical Laboratory 250.
The crew quickly recovered from first fright, looked out the portholes. They saw "steel-like fangs of ice moving stealthily through the water, which changes in color . . . throughout the entire range of blues." They saw prawn-like and cock-roach-shaped creatures, sea fleas, medusa jelly fish. Through compression chambers...
Companion Essex Super-Six has more comfortable upholstery, slightly changed body lines, and a new high-compression motor equipped with three-jet carburetor, an oil-saving piston ring, other power-producing features. $595 up.
Carburetion has been improved, compression ratios reduced.
*Not to be confused with a "booster" magneto, for auxiliary starting ignition, the compressed-air principle is also used in starting ordinary engines in heavier-than-aircraft (e. g. the Heywood starter). Other types are: 1) hand inertia; 2) electric inertia, comparable to the automobile starter, by means of a...