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Lifeboats. On solid land, in Astoria, Anthony J. Lewkowicz, designer of the lifeboat davits and skids with which the Vestris was equipped, gave audience to newspapermen. He declared the lifeboats were unsinkable, the tackle was foolproof. Said he: "With my davits a boat with a full load can be launched safely by one man ... in spite of 32-degree list. . . . The average time is 15 seconds." But lifeboats did capsize and sink; tackle fouled and broke; and some boats, manned by fools or not, took two hours to launch...
...with nine cylinders arranged like the spokes of a wheel around the propeller shaft. The cylinders are cooled by the rushing air, but do not themselves revolve (as in other types of air-cooled motors). The significant qualities of the Wright J5 are lightness of weight, simplicity, durability, practical foolproof-ness. It drives almost any airplane at a contented speed of 100 m.p.h., can do 130 m.p.h., depending on the plane and flying conditions. Mr. Lawrance has recently perfected a 525-horsepower, nine-cylinder, air-cooled motor-big brother to the Wright...
...systems to hospital authorities have seemed foolproof. Babies could be handled efficiently. They could be shuffled around. They could be kept in cribs, if need be, like boxes on a shoe store shelf. And identity would be kept...
...week's convention of the American Gas Association at Atlantic City, brought forth new gifts which gasmen have learned to wring from their favorite commodity, or which are under way. Gas-Cold. The Consolidated Gas Co. of New York declared that January would behold quantity production of a "foolproof," silent refrigerator without any moving parts,* in which a liquid is kept circulating by a gas flame. At one point in its circuit, the liquid absorbs heat, producing cold. Housewives could see themselves "lighting...
Engineers. The aeronautics section of the Society of Automotive Engineers went into session. One speaker was Professor Alexander Klemin, onetime aeronautics editor of TIME, lately head of the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics at New York University. He spoke of the "foolproof" plane that must some day be developed to make flying as general as automobiling; promised that the international competition, made "interesting" by $150,000 to $200,000, which the Guggenheim Foundation is to conduct over the next three years, would turn designer's minds from the speed craze* to safety. The principal factors to be developed: slower...