Word: feet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present there are six large locomotive bells from old engines, and an old kerosene headlamp four feet high which was found last year in Profile Notch, N. H. Other relics are five oldstyle ventilators from car number 7 of the Boston and Lowell railroad, an oil can used on one of the early engines, a group of switch keys, instruments used in surveying the Boston and Lowell railroad and the original surveys, which are very valuable, the first rail of that road, and a large watering pot with two glasses which was used in the '80's to provide drinking...
...Many queer looking engines are portrayed, including the "Samson", "Stoverbridge Lion", the "Norris", and "Boynton Bicycle Engine Number 1" This last contrivance had only one large wheel under the boiler with the engineer's cab located on top of the fireman's cab, the last located only a few feet above the road...
Brilliant and useful is Dr. Bergius' feat. Brilliant and useful too is another U. S. method of making artificial coal. Instead of throwing away the thick refuse oil left in refinery stills, it is heated in tubes several thousand feet long. This heating produces some vaporized, oil. The residue cools into shapeless blocks of bituminous coal, which can be processed just like natural soft coal...
...Kitty Hawk that cold December week, Wilbur and Orville Wright tossed a coin to decide which would try the first flight. Wilbur won, got into the machine, rose a few feet. After three seconds the machine stalled. Next it was Orville's turn. He succeeded; he sustained the flight of a kite...
Flying Developments. That first flight was over only 120 feet of ground and lasted only 12 seconds. During the 25 years since then various planes have crossed the Atlantic, Pacific and Arctic Oceans. They have risen to 38,418 ft., stayed in the air 65 hrs. 25 min., traveled 4,466 miles without alighting, sped 319 m. p. h. They have crossed North America from the Pacific to the Atlantic in 18 hr. 58 min., from the Atlantic to the Pacific...