Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dawn had just stolen over Long Island when an eager little man and a thoughtful taller one busied themselves about a monster silvery airplane with "Sikorsky-New York (crossed flags) Paris" painted on her engine gondolas and fuselage. It was on the plains of Westbury and perhaps a thousand people...
The Presidential party was 15 minutes early, so they waited in the automobile, surrounded by four bird cages and the two collies, before the special six-car train was ready. The engine hissed, the piston began to churn; the President waved goodbye to Gabriel (a town near White Pine Camp...
The Knight patents have until 1934 to run. Then there doubtless will be a scramble of manufacturers who will install this engine. But Mr. Knight, retired at Los Angeles with his royalties ever flowing, has been so improving the mechanism that he can keep his own licensees always ahead of...
The Army beat the Navy in the Liberty Engine Builders' trophy race, Lieut. Orville L. Stephens coming home first in a Curtiss Falcon observation plane after averaging 142.6 m.p.h. for a dozen laps of a 12-mile course. Later the Navy, in the person of Lieut. C. T. Cuddihy...
Henry Ford, Detroit automobile manufacturer: "Researchers W. A. Noel and Rudolph Hellbach of the U. S. Department of Agriculture reported, in the magazine Power (weekly), that they had run one of the regulation motors made at my factory, on sweepings from a grain elevator. Dust particles suspended in air will...