Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Airplanes were still in pinfeathers when Rudyard Kipling wrote his stirring turn-of-the-century story. With the Night Mail, and filled the fictional skies over the Atlantic with swift craft propelled by a vaguely described "Fleury's Ray." Present-day jetliners are already three times as fast as...
Swift Flash. The power for Republic's engine is produced by a plasma* which responds instantly to magnetic forces, thus permitting its particles to be accelerated to extremely high speeds. At the heart of the engine are two aluminum electrodes, 8 in. in diameter and about 1 in. apart...
This enormous speed, many times as fast as a chemical rocket's exhaust, is the secret of the plasma engine's promise. All space engines must shoot something astern to gain their thrust, and as the exhaust speed rises, the engine becomes more efficient. Republic's plasma...
Development of the Vine is one more step in a process that has enabled little (5,600 employees) Cummins Engine Co. to elbow aside the giants and carve out for itself 60% of the U.S. market for diesel truck engines. Cummins' achievement is all the more remarkable since it...
At college (Yale and Oxford), Miller studied Latin and Greek and aspired to architecture. But in 1934 he was called home to Columbus to take charge of the least promising of the wealthy Miller family's far-flung enterprises: a consistently unprofitable plant that had been built to produce...