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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Professional Diver, 40 Men, and 12 Spectators Appear on Charles River Near Dunster House | 11/22/1934 | See Source »

...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

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Astronautics | 12/14/1931 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CATASTROPHE: At Gladewater (Cont'd) | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

...Perl plan is to build a 22-ft. duralumin fuselage shaped like a dirigible, hermetically sealed. Inside would be a compressor which would supply air at sea level pressure and warm it for the pilot and the motor (which would be within the fuselage). Outside would be the propeller, wings resembling those of a flying fish, and tail fins. Landing wheels would be retracted into the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Stratospheric Flying | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

...power supply of the Pitkin bone hammer consists of an ordinary small compressor unit. Seventy pounds pressure of air, delivered to the hammer, is all that is used at Massachusetts General Hospital where Surgeon-Inventor Pitkin has been at work. In experiments more than 70 pounds pressure shattered the bones of cadavers, although bones of living patients can stand greater battering without splitting untowardly. The chief problem in perfecting the device was to get the power air sterile enough for the operating room. That Surgeon-Inventor Pitkin accomplished by passing the air through an alcohol filter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pitkin's Bone Hammer | 8/22/1927 | See Source »

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