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None, however, denied Lieut. Settle's statement that Maybach alone is proven for dirigibles,* that the power-plant requirements of airplane and airship differ as do those of racing car and motorbus. Dirigible engines must: run thousands of hours between overhauls, have low weight and low fuel consumption, be...
In describing this meteorite, Luyten reports, "The first impression that one gets of the meteor, seeing it from a distance, is not too overwhelming, but this changes when one gets close to it. It is an enormous block of metal, almost rectangular in shape, of dimensions nine by ten feet...
In his London hotel room last week was Dr. Bailey Willis, 72-year-old geologist-emeritus of Stanford University, attache of the Carnegie Institution, scientific advisor to states and governments.* He had just returned from a 7000-mile trip through Africa. He had walked 500 miles of the way, nicking...
Five years Engineer Woolson and his research staff at the Packard plant have labored designing the motor. They had, first, the diesel principle to go on, i.e., that air can be heated by compression until hot enough to ignite a jet of fuel oil.
It is a platitude that examination wisdom is not true understanding of the subject. The fact that the Junior divisional examination taken by students in History and Literature is the same as that offered the Seniors indicates the compression into three years of knowledge ordinarily acquired in four; while this...