Word: diesel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like most U. S. submarines at the outbreak of the War, the L-9, 150-ft. overall, 16-ft. beam, was a crowded, smelly, temperamental craft. She could make 14 knots on the surface, but her red-enameled Diesel engines shook themselves to pieces so frequently the crew strung up nets to avoid being hit by flying parts. She had a 3-in. disappearing gun that could be coaxed up on deck after great labor, but had a disconcerting habit of vanishing into its compartment without warning, before or after it was fired. Her crew of 28 men and four...
Most significant news of the meeting was the Diesel engine. Though Diesels were patented by Germany's Dr. Rudolf Diesel in 1892 only about 40 have been installed, in U. S, busses and those for scarcely more than a year. Because Diesel engines burn fuel oil instead of gasoline, because the oil is ignited not by electric sparks but by high compression (around 500 Ib. per sq. in.) which raises the temperature of air in the cylinder to about 1,000° F., they are: 1) cheap to operate. 2) heavy in order to withstand high pressure, 3) expensive...
Their initial cost is some 50% more than that of conventional gasoline engines. Newest types do not work directly on the transmission but generate electric power that propels a vehicle without clutch or gear shift. Last year New Jersey's Public Service Coordinated Transport bought 27 Diesel-electrics from Yellow Truck & Coach Manufacturing Co. for $12,000 each and at once put them into passenger service. Since then the New Jersey fleet has rolled up 1.000,000 carefully tabulated, experimental miles and the company's enthusiastic report of Diesel results put new bees in many a busman...
...would soon start test flights across the North Atlantic. Lufthansa last week announced that it would start test flights to the U. S. in the first week of July with "the two biggest two-float hydroplanes ever constructed." These trim monoplanes, called Nordmeer and Nordwind, are powered by four Diesel engines apiece, have a cruising speed of 155 m.p.h. Designed for mail only, they will be catapulted by German ships at each end as were the two Lufthansa planes which test-flew the Atlantic last summer (TIME, Sept. 21). Last week the U. S. gave Lufthansa permission to make more...
...second possibility is ignition from motor exhaust or sparks. I would like to very definitely decline this possibility. We have made such exhaustive tests of temperatures and the operation of Diesel engines. ... In our years of experience it has never happened that gas has been ignited by sparks while being valved...