Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There is a feeling of distaste among many pilots against the parachute. And owners of planes and air mail superintendents have sometimes voiced the cruel sentiment that a parachute on board would make the pilot desert his plane too early, without the final effort to save it. There is not...
One of the greatest practical wastes in railroading arises from burning fuel in switching yard engines to keep steam up continually, although the engines are only occasionally used. This loss may now become obsolete through the perfection of a wholly new type of switching engine, built by the General Electric...
The new locomotive burns oil fuel in a large oil engine which is directly connected with a powerful electric generator ; the latter in turn drives four electric motors. Thus, although the locomotive uses electric power to pull its loads, it needs no third rail or overhead wire, but contains its...
At Lakehurst a further difficulty arose. So much fuel had been burnt on the journey that the ship was very light. The ballast recovery apparatus installed on one engine compensated only in small part for the loss of fuel weight, and in three attempts at mooring, the drag ropes swung...
What could disprove the notion of the Shenandoah being a fair-weather craft more happily than this? A moonless night, a heavy thunderstorm, two sessions of heavy fog?none of these seemed to have bothered the ship very much. The difficulty in landing "light" will certainly disappear when the ballast...