Word: design
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bennett Field, N. Y. one morning last week, tore through 2,500 mi. of stiff west wind, landed at Burbank, Calif. 12 hr. 22 min. later, more than two hours under the westbound record. The pilot was big-framed Roscoe Turner who wears a swagger uniform of his own design and used to keep a mascot lion. The plane was a Wedell-Williams speedster of the type which made the eastbound record (10 hr. 19 min.) last September...
...given year, has shown the best record of accomplishment in the teaching of architecture along the lines followed by the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The award is made not simply on the actual record of the men in competition in the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design in New York. The Harvard Schools does not enter these competitions regularly and usually sends drawings only two or three times a year. The award is made partly on the basis of drawings sent and partly on a careful investigation by a committee of the Beaux-Arts Institute of Design. It takes...
...tungsten wire. This led him directly to the invention of the gas-filled incandecent lamp which saves U. S. users of electricity, according to estimates. $1.000,000 a night. The same concept led to his creating almost complete vacuums in thermionic tubes. To do this he was obliged to design a new powerful mercury pump. Result is cheap, highly efficient vacuum tubes for radio, and long distance telephony. Another result was Dr. Coolidge's perfection of dependable x-ray tubes and his design of tandem x-ray', tubes whose radiation is almost as powerful as radium...
...rotating at speeds up to 3000 revolutions per minute, and also the simultaneous determination of the air pressure in every part of the fan. This demands experimental procedures of considerable complexity, but this work is necessary as a basis for the analysis of existing fans and for improving their design...
Thus, only two months ago spoke Hector 0. Hamilton, British subject and East Orange, N. J. architect, famed for his prize-winning design for Moscow's projected Palace of Soviets (TIME, March 14). When he spoke Mr. Hamilton was in Manhattan but expected to spend most of his time for the next three years in "a peach of a suite in Moscow at the Hotel National...