Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The aero engine must meet much severer requirements than the automobile engine. It must work at a greater proportion of its full power most of the time, it must be more compact, more reliable, and above all it must be lighter.
A 1,000 horsepower locomotive may weigh 20 or 30 tons. A small Ford motor weighs over 200 pounds and develops only 25 horsepower or so. The Liberty motor weighs 873 pounds for its 400 horsepower, i. e. a little over two pounds per horsepower. The great object of the...
This is the result of two years' steady development work. While every new device is constantly being tried and suggested, progress in aero engines seems to consist in improvement of existing features, with gradual changes only. The strongest steel alloys are used throughout. Many parts are made totally of...
Borglum's friends spoke loud for him. Said William J. Robinson, Manhattan art dealer, friend of Borglum: "This is largely a Ku Klux Klan matter. Borglum attacked Dr. Evans, so called Imperial Wizard, very bitterly, and said the latter was sowing hate and discord in the world while he...
Such a statement is a peculiar background for a violent rise in Baldwin common on the Stock Exchange, yet just this movement occurred. The cause lay in the announcement by resident Samuel M. Vauclain that the Baldwin Locomotive Co. had perfected a new Diesel oil-burning locomotive, which would burn...