Word: heavier
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...final game for the class championship will be played between the Senior and Freshman teams in the Hemenway Gymnasium tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock. It is probable that the Seniors will also win this, as they are heavier and have better team-work...
...Merrill began his lecture with a brief history of the development of the aeroplane, which is the only practical method of the three employed to elevate a heavier-than-air machine. The other two the use of vertical screws and the oscillation of wings, involve almost insoluble questions of stability. No progress was made in aeroplanes until Langley showed that the estimation of power necessary to lift a given weight was erroneous. Maxim took up the Work of Langley and contrived to lift 8,000 pounds by the proper balancing of horizontal planes. Lielienthal, a German scientist, attacked the problem...
After demonstrating the principles of soaring, by blackboard diagrams, Mr. Merrill went on to explain the present weakness of the aeroplane, namely, the engine. It is the inefficiency of the motive power which has and still does limit the range and speed of the heavier-than-air machine. It is on the engine that French scientists are now putting their greatest efforts. To get the maximum horse-power with a minimum weight is the present problem of aeronautics. If the engine ceases to supply power the aeroplane has to descend and if this happens over a country devoid of suitable...
...members of the University only, and the other on December 1 at 8 o'clock, which will be open to the public. The exhibition will be one of the finest ever attempted in the United States, 36,000 pictures having been secured. The pictures will represent every variety of heavier-than-air machines in actual flight, including the Curtiss, Wright, Bleriot and Voisin types. A few races will also be exhibited. A superior type of cinematograph will be used to show the pictures. Definite announcements as to the library, lecture courses, and gliding sections will be made at both meetings...
Annually at this time, and this year in greater proportions than ever, because the demand for football tickets is heavier, the speculation evil rises anew. Tickets are being sold by speculators on State street for upwards of $15, and the regular agencies in Boston are refusing to handle tickets for the game, because the speculators demand such exorbitant prices...