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Word: damblanc (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1925-1925
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...engine at a constant value. Such compressors have introduced great complexity and additional weight into the power plant. Paul Painleve, momentarily abandoning his Presidential Chair in the Chamber of Deputies to return to his old haunts at the Academy of Sciences, announces an invention by Louis Damblanc, builder of the Damblanc helicopter, which is to achieve the same end with far less complication. The cables tell us little except that the device is of insignificant volume, weighs only 16 pounds and is adapted to the interior of the engine. A plausible guess is that the device increases the air (oxygen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: High Flying | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

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