Word: compressor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carrier was interested, began to experiment, found that warm wet air could be cooled and dried by passing it through an atomized spray. By 1915 he had recruited a partner and enough capital to start Carrier Engineering Corp. in Newark, N. J. In 1922 he invented a centrifugal refrigerating compressor which has been a potent factor in building Carrier prestige. He works hard, is absent-minded about meals and haircuts, likes to hunt and fish. In 1929 his companies did nearly $8,000,000 worth of business, earned. $672,000. Last year there was a deficit of $673,000. This...
With the appearance of a professional diver, 40 men, a dozen spectators, a rowboat, and a pneumatic hammer or air-compressor on Memorial Drive below Dunster House yesterday afternoon, the suspicion dawned, especially on the minds of Dunstermen, that the Strauss Hall feed had assumed new proportions. Such was not the case, however, for although water is the subject out into the river, in order to speed the drainage of storm and surface the drainage of storm and surface water from the vicinity...
...Dessau, Germany, the Junkers factory is completing its first "stratosphere" plane, a low-wing monoplane of 40 ft. wingspread with a sealed cabin and a special air compressor to permit the engine to operate at altitudes greater than 7 mi. Claimed speed: 1,000 m.p.h
...Brother Myron has been summoned to blow out fires in Brazil, Argentina. Venezuela, Mexico, Rumania but either failed to arrive in time or, as in Rumania, was balked by red tape. Both are married, have children. When not snuffing wells, they run the M. M. Kinley Co. (air compressor operators, well surveyors...