Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automobiles stood side by side, their motors rumbling, their front wheels on the starting-line of the Indianapolis speedway. At the flash of the signal the two roared off in a cloud of blue exhaust, the drivers handling their cars carefully, expertly, in anticipation of the 24-hour grind that lay ahead of them...
...King-Emperor moved three chessmen upon the board of State, and in a flash one was taken by an unseen player, Death. The coincidence, startling, roused keen interest in the three august chessmen...
...Bremen, a silver flash in the air, is a low-winged, single-motored Junkers machine similar to those used in passenger and freight service on the Lufthansa lines. She has a 310 h.p. motor and cruises best at a speed of 95 to 100 miles an hour...
...flash lasts a few millionths of a second but years have been spent in building up its strength. Seven years ago the Pittsfield laboratory announced 1,000,000 volts, four years later this figure was doubled. Still the work goes on. The present power, 3,600,000 volts, is the highest ever obtained by man; about 17 times greater than the highest voltage transmission line in this country; and far beyond any voltage produced by natural lightning on transmission lines...
Despite its brevity, the life line of the lightning flash has been accurately measured by the cathode ray oscillograph. This is an instrument developed by the General Electric Company at Schenectady and makes use of a beam of electrons which, acting as a pointer, measures- the rise & fall, or wave shape of the voltages. When a wave of lightning encounters an obstruction it builds up to twice its power, just as a wave of water breaking on a wall will splash about twice its height. Therefore a direct voltage of 3,000,000 traveling along a line will suddenly jump...