Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...floor above the boats were the engines, from little one-cylinder engines to hitch on to a rowboat, to oil engines big enough to drive a yacht. All week spectators gathered around the booth wherein, upon an altar, rested a Cummins Diesel engine. This engine used cheap fuel oil instead of gasoline, starts instantly from stone cold, "takes up no more space than a heavy-duty gasoline engine." Big Diesel engines are used to drive ocean liners...
...Augustus, "the first all-Fascist built ship," will be the largest motor ship in the world (33,000 tons). She slid into the water at Genoa last week only eight months after her keel was laid, and her great Diesel motors will send her churning to South America seven months hence...
...John Fritz, iron and steel pioneer. It has given the Fritz medal to Lord Kelvin (transatlantic cables), George Westinghouse (air brakes), Alexander Graham Bell (telephones). Last week it designated a slender little man from whose brain have sprung electric arc lights, electric carriages, gyroscopes, super-search-lights, compound Diesel engines. It named Elmer Ambrose Sperry and specifically recognized his "development of the gyrocompass and the application of the gyroscope to the stabilization of ships and airplanes...
...Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute-Diesel Engines...
...spontaneous combustion of dust at the bottom. The detail to be solved before automobiles may run on chaff: a continuous, measured fuel-feed system. Many people were struck by the fact that only last week the Foos Gas Engine Co. of Springfield, Ohio, announced a small new Diesel engine that could run with almost any oil for fuel, even buttermilk (TIME, Sept...