Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Research Co. announced, and careful U. S. oil men accepted it as a fact, that Chemist Audibert of Paris had succeeded in making synthetic petroleum, not as a laboratory curiosity, but by a process commercially practicable. This announcement was made and received as being far more important than other fuel-substitute discoveries lately made- coal dust in the U. S. and Germany, fagots in France (Time, Oct. 11). Submitting oxygen, hydrogen and coal to a pressure of 200 atmospheres, introducing a secret catalytic agent and filtering the result, M. Audibert had indubitably obtained a heavy viscous fluid which readily refined...
Into Paris last week chugged a 14-passenger motor bus, back from a 3,280-mile turn around France. Its fuel cost had been only $15. The Bleriot Co. (headed by M. Louis Bleriot, first man ever to fly over the English Channel (TIME, Aug. 30) posted advertisements beside the bus in the Paris National Automobile Exposition setting forth that it would henceforth manufacture this conveyance, the economy of which arose from its burning fuel, vaporized charcoal or raw wood. The wood is piled by the driver's seat, where he feeds it into a stove, which manufactures hydrocarbon...
Joss' protests that he was not a Sophomore only added fuel to the fire of the Freshmen's levenge for past hazing, Joss was forced to walk six milles back into Tucson under a blazing desert...
Jacob Islamoff knew that this "dolly" had not been tested with the ship weighing over 20,000 lb. Also he knew that now, with a last-moment extra fuel tank added, the ship weighed 28,845 Ib. Earlier tests had come out decimal perfect; Designer Igor Sikorsky knew his business; the three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors had demonstrated their power conclusively and would doubtless lift the whole weight free as a bird. But still, that "dolly" . . . However, Mechanic Islamoff said nothing...
...Ford motor with an arrangement of valves, pipes and a small fan, feeding the grain-dust by hand. Ignition was by spark plugs as usual, the electric current being controlled slightly differently from our way. The explosions were 'ready and frequent.' Beginnings along this line of dust fuel for combustion engines were demonstrated at last year's Chemical Industries Exposition in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 12). The original discovery was made when a grain elevator was once blown to the top of its shaft by the spontaneous combustion of dust at the bottom. The detail to be solved...