Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chief Weymouth and his lieutenants made several contributions to engineering science. They designed special canal grading and lining machines. They proved the efficacy of curved steel I-beams for tunnel supports. And they learned how to weld steel pipe an inch thick...
More distinguished than any of her performances thus far as a mere working actress was Paulette Goddard's farewell performance as a phantom actress. Last winter, after breaking one of her nails, which were almost an inch long, she went about Palm Beach with her finger in a sling...
With every measurement precise to a sixteenth of an inch, the newly completed squash courts are among the finest in the country. For every court there is a gallery for either spectators or for coaching purposes; moreover, a coach may direct on several courts at once. Two of the courts may be used for handball as well as squash...
Pressures reaching up to 2,000,000 pounds per square inch are being applied to rocks and crystals by David T. Griggs, Junior Follow in Geophysics. in a study of geological forces deep underground. Tests used involve the highest one directional stress ever controlled and measured in laboratory research. High pressure equipment utilized was developed at Harvard by Professor Percy W. Bridgeman...
...specimen of rock under test is placed in a thick steel cylinder. An hydraulic confining pressure is applied through a liquid, or at very high pressures through lead. The highest confining pressure used are about 300,000 pounds per square inch. In addition, a direct, differential pressure is exerted on the specimen by a steel piston. Different pressure used attain more than 1.500,000 pounds per square inch...