Word: dieselization
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...fuel to be used is diesel oil, a heavy substitute for gasoline. This oil is already used for almost every type of engine work. Ocean liners of the newest type are being equipped with diesel engines. In Germany, where the supply of gasoline is limited, diesel oil is rapidly taking the place of the lighter fuel. When the gasoline sources in this country are depleted, diesel oil will be the next resource, according to Professor Marks. Another advantage of diesel oil over gasoline is the comparatively small volume it occupies. This is of especial importance in long distance flying...
...been purchased, and will be used for the experiment projected by the Engineering School. This engine, remarkable or its high potential speed, is of German invention. The problem facing engineers at present is to get higher speed and less weight, and the achievement of this end would make diesel airplane engines practical...
...American university, the holders of which are chosen from the whole British Empire. Alexander, a graduate of Cambridge University, and Brown, who graduated from the University of Glasgow, are both specializing in the same field, and have both been working on the same problem, that of perfecting diesel engines for airplane use. They will combine forces this year in an effort to solve the problem...
...September. Baldwin Locomotive "Works seemed a good investment to the Fisher Brothers. It is the largest locomotive works in the U. S. It owns high priced real estate in Philadelphia, which it is vacating for cheaper land at Eddystone, Pa. It can adapt its factories to the manufacture of Diesel and other marine engines, as has its competitor, American Car & Foundry Co., now a great maker of motor boats. With the Fisher brothers on the close terms they are with General Motors, observers fancied the Baldwin Works as a possible further adjunct of that vast corporation. A new, comparatively small...
Died. William Goodman, 52, inventor-engineer, Vice President of the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corp.; in Manhattan, after a mastoid operation. The double-action Diesel engine which the U. S. Shipping Board has lately adopted as standard equipment for many of its ships, and the feather valve air compressor, were developed under his supervision...