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...across. A small motor turned it into a 10-m. p. h. wind during last week's demonstration. The force developed was four ton. It bent 2 in. by 6 in. steel bars. If the tower were on a truck, where it will ultimately be mounted, the four-ton force would turn the truck wheels. The turning wheels would operate an electrical generator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Electricity from Wind | 10/30/1933 | See Source »

...Suddenly an automobile bounded from the road, crossed the curb, plunged into the garden, ripped through vines and hedges, plowed up flower beds, gouged an eight-foot gash in the side of the house, tore away the ivy that had been trained up the wall since 1914, uprooted a four-ton stepping stone, piled up against a maple tree. Out of the automobile, unhurt, stepped its driver, hulking Author Theodore Dreiser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 18, 1932 | 7/18/1932 | See Source »

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