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...ordinary diving suit, with a body of fabric, inflated by air, subjects the wearer to air pressure as great as the water pressure without. †The depth attainable in ordinary suits is about 180 feet
...last Report, President Lowell wrote: "There is now intention of gradually substituting tutorial work for courses of instruction.... They must by experience be woven together into one fabric, not inharmonious but each dependent for its best results upon the other." Quite so; but the matter is that there can be no harmonious development as long as the present over-emphasis on grades is maintained. it is an iron band which ruthlessly stunts the growth of the tutorial system. There are not two strong and harmonious systems; there is in fact only one, and that one crushes by its dead weight...
...pilot or observer sits encased in a web harness, firmly adjusted to his body by straps and buckles. Above is a small container of canvas duck in which the great silken fabric, of 24-ft. diameter when open, is cleverly packed. A "pilot chute" -an umbrella-like contrivance with spring release-rushes easily out of the container, catches the wind and hauls the main chute out in a second or so. The great supporting surface opens up in an instant. Carefully arranged silk shrouds, made of Japanese silk (the strongest and lightest of textiles) pass continuously from a ring...
...Truth-in-Fabric. Passage of the proposed bill which would require the labeling of wool fabrics with a statement of the percentage of virgin wool, shoddy, cotton, linen, silk which each contains...
...area in its biplane wings of 2,400 sq. ft. The sturdy 60-ft. hull, built of the wonderfully light and strong duralumin, is lighter and less liable to soakage than the wooden-hull type of construction it Displaces, can keep afloat in the roughest sea. The wings, while fabric-covered, are also metal in their structure. Two huge Packard engines of 800 horsepower each revolve at 2,200 times a minute-hence their large power for comparatively small weight-while the propellers are geared down and therefore work more slowly and efficiently. The engines are placed in tandem, with...