Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Packard Motor Car Co.'s President Alvan Macauley last week said that by the end of March he would be manufacturing the new Packard-Diesel airplane motor. That will be a milestone, the first Diesel-type (oil-burning) airplane motor developed...
...these motors use gasoline for fuel. It must be a high-grade gasoline. And it is expensive. A cheaper fuel, such as fuel oil, is desirable. So research has been going on. Diesel engines burn fuel oil. But Diesel engines are ponderous. Packard's triumph is that its engineers have designed a light-weight Diesel-type motor that burns cheap fuel oil efficiently, and is air-cooled. Although it is a radial, its invention gives promise of an "in-line" air-cooled successor...
...Navy Department. Hobbled by the Versailles Treaty on naval construction, Germany has evolved a special type of small hard-hitting battle-cruiser, which may or may not cause revolutionary changes among naval architects. The vessel 9,000-ton displacement, is driven at 26 knots by 50,000 h. p. Diesel motors. (U. S. cruisers are to speed at 33 knots.) It mounts eleven-inch guns (U. S. cruisers eight-inch). Solid-hulled, without rivets, it costs...
Harrison Williams, $3,000,000, Cox & Stevens. It has not yet been decided whether this yacht will be built in the U. S. or in Germany. But it will be the biggest Diesel pleasure yacht in the world...
Charles F. Kettering, chief engineer of General Motors Corp., is personally supervising the building of the Kettering yacht. He has designed a device to synchronize electrically the two Diesel motors, a mercury stabilizer to replace the gyroscope, many another automatic and electrical control for comfort and convenience...