Word: exhaustion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Geer's injury occurred on Friday morning when he was asphyxiated in his closed garage by the carbon monoxide gas from the exhaust of his automobile. After being overcome, he lay for about three quarters of an hour before he was discovered by his son and taken to the hospital...
...William H. Geer, director of the Department of Physical Education in the University was lying unconscious at a late hour last night in the Massachusetts General Hospital as a restrict of inhaling monoxide gas from the exhaust of his car at about 9 o'clock yesterday morning...
...duralumin. The valve mechanism of the overhead type is driven by a cam system and placed in a housing of the lightest possible construction. The cylinders are of larger bore and shorter stroke than the old Liberty motors so that the height of the motor is diminished. The exhaust valves working in the terrific heat of the outgoing gases are cooled by a column of oil forced under pressure through the stems and heads of the valves with greater reliability of the valve system as the result. A specially designed magneto furnishes a double spark. The general appearance...
...handling of the concentrated tetraethyl lead. This hazard occurs in the manufacturing plant. 2) The possible hazard in handling the Ethyl Gasoline (1 part of tetraethyl lead to 1,000 parts of gasoline). This possible hazard may affect those handling Ethyl Gasoline. 3) The possible hazard due to the exhaust gases from automobiles using Ethyl Gasoline. This possible hazard concerns the entire public. But the men who died last week were not in contact with the explosion gases of the Ethyl Gasoline, nor with the gasoline itself, but with the 1,000 times more concentrated tetraethyl lead. They had been...
...nearly $160 per 1,000 cu. ft.; and, since only 1% of helium is present in the most richly endowed sources of natural gas, it must always be expensive. In the Atlantic crossing, the ZR3 used up 30% of its hydrogen. Even with recovery of the gases in the exhaust to compensate for loss of weight by fuel, thus dispensing with the "valving" of gas to meet changes in weight, there will always be a large expenditure of helium...