Word: cubical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second plant in Des Moines and working on a $1,000,000 expansion of its San Diego plant. In California, Solar will make an eye-opening new gas turbine engine which the company unveiled a fortnight ago. Its new "T-45" weighs only 165 Ibs., displaces but two cubic feet, and runs on diesel oil. The Navy was looking for such an engine for power launches, pumps and other shipboard uses. Said Rear Admiral W. D. Leggett, Deputy Chief of the Bureau of Ships: "[It is] the simplest practical gas-turbine engine...
...feet) and spill it into the Coulee. This turbine-pump combination, using a river's energy to raise part of its water over its own high banks, is the key engineering trick that frees irrigation from gravity. Its efficiency is about 80%, i.e., one cubic foot of water falling 100 feet generates enough electricity to pump another cubic foot 80 feet above the reservoir...
...with the proportions of a cathedral nave. Two are already installed, driven by the most powerful (65,000 h.p.) motors in the world. Each can pump enough water (one billion gallons a day) to meet the needs of New York City. All twelve pumps together will lift 16,000 cubic feet per second-close to the average flow of the Colorado River...
...acre-foot equals 43,560 cubic feet of water, enough to cover one acre one foot deep...
...cubic mile of sea water there is about $93 million worth of gold, but no one has yet figured out how to extract it profitably...