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Word: compressors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in television, monolithic NBC seemed to be having trouble keeping its balance. Last week the Lanny Ross show announced a TV ice show which would feature raspberry-colored ice to eliminate glare from the screen. But a compressor unit failed to do its job and by program time the footing was closer to raspberry sherbet. As a replacement, NBC hustled up some film shorts. Two hours later the ice show finally went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio & TV: Flight of the Comedians | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...ferret. His bosses tie a length of fishing line to his collar; to the fishing line they attach another length of electrical wiring. Then, while Freddie is held at one end of a piece of pipe designed to protect wires, another man, with a dead rabbit and an air compressor, goes to the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Freddie the Ferret | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...compressor wafts the scent of the dead rabbit down the pipe to Freddie's eager nose. Released, Freddie scuttles up the pipe in pursuit of the rabbit, and, simultaneously, lays the wiring. In one morning recently, Freddie laid wiring in 60 pipes, the longest of which was 130 ft. By hand, the job would have taken a human electrician a month, cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW ZEALAND: Freddie the Ferret | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...high-pressure exhaust gases from the cylinders spin a two-stage turbine that drives a compressor. The air from the compressor passes through a cooler, which gets rid of the heat of compression, makes the air contract and become denser, able to burn more fuel. The dense supercharged air goes into the piston engine, burns with the fuel and passes on to the turbine. As it shoots out through a tailpipe, it exerts several hundred pounds of jet thrust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hybrid Vigor | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...called the "flying stovepipe" before its proper design was found to be enormously difficult. The ramjet does look simple. It is a hollow cylinder open at both ends and subtly shaped inside. When it is moving rapidly, the air coming in the nose is compressed as if by the compressor of the turbojet. Fuel is burned near the point of highest compression. The energy added to the compressed air by combustion shoves a jet of hot, high-speed gas out the rear end with a noise like thunder. There is nothing inside a typical ramjet except fuel nozzles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: More Power to You | 8/9/1948 | See Source »

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