Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: In a recent issue of TIME you have stated that no patents are obtainable on the new Packard Diesel type airplane motor. We do not know the source of your information but the fact is that while the Diesel engine principle is very old, many problems had to be...
James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, one-time errand boy and engine cleaner, last week became the Right Honorable James Henry Thomas, Lord Privy Seal of Great Britain. By his new title the onetime errand boy legally takes precedence over all the dukes of Britain.*
Their problem was to make such an engine light enough for efficient flying.
Their accomplishment, reached and tested episodically last year, is a nine-cylinder, radial, air-cooled motor. It lacks, of course, the sparkplugs, wires, magnetos, etc., essential in spark-ignited gasoline engines. A pipe line distributes oil under pressure to each of the cylinders. The present machine delivers 200 h.p., and...
From snow-clogged central Manitoba last week went out the account of what an epidemic may mean to an isolated community. In early May typhoid fever appeared at Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay. The nearest hospital was 183 miles away at The Pas. A few patients got through the blizzard...