Word: flywheels
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...years ago that Mr. Sperry turned his ubiquitous attention to that toy of mathematicians-;a flywheel with a hoop around it, spinning in a frame on light bearings-of which the internal equilibrium is sufficient to withstand outer forces that seek to upset its balance. In the arc-light field, it is 47 years since he won practical adoption for his first invention; 43 years since he erected a 40,000-candle-power beacon on Lake Michigan. Last week, at the Electrical and Industrial Exposition in Manhattan, Army engineers demonstrated the two-billion-candle-power searchlight he had made them...
...board the tug Imbricaria in the Pacific, the Chief Engineer, one James Scott, mangled his finger in a flywheel so that white bone grinned through the flesh. Amputation was necessary. The tug's captain downed a pony of whisky, hammered off Air. Scott's finger with a mallet and cold chisel...
Harvard Engineering Society. Proposed Hudson River Bridge at New York, Mr. L. J. Johnson; Flywheel Accidents. Lawrence Scientific School, Room...
Harvard Engineering Society. Proposed Hudson River Bridge at New York, Mr. L. J. Johnson; Flywheel Accidents. Lawrence Scientific School, Room...