Word: inductor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pick-up pressure on the record is only 0.176 ounces while that of the ordinary pick-up is from one to three ounces. It is an inductor dynamic type with a permanent sapphire needle on a single-loop, U-shaped inductor in a strong magnetic field...
...diplomatic reception room at the White House Franklin Roosevelt was last week initiated into his eleventh lodge,* the Knights of Pythias. In telescopic order he was put through the degrees of page, esquire and knight. Chief inductor was onetime Senate Inquisitor Ferdinand Pecora, now a New York Supreme Court Justice. Knight Pecora's job, for which he was well equipped, was to give Page Roosevelt a sound dressing down to inculcate in him the spirit of Knightly humility...
...conducts electricity well. To set up the resistance he packed the crucible in lampblack-an obstinate conductor of electricity. The current was carried through a copper coil. The outside of the furnace was heat-insulated, and a temperature gradient was established through the heat insulation to a water-cooled inductor coil. This carried the heat away, prevented the outside of the furnace from getting hot and breaking down the charge coil, which had spoiled earlier efforts to maintain high temperatures...
...feats-Lindbergh's & Coste's. Lindbergh, alone in a Ryan monoplane powered by a 200 h. p. Wright Whirlwind motor, without radio, flew eastward 3,610 mi. in 33 hr. 29 min. His fuel load was 425 gal., his average speed 107 m. p. h. An earth inductor compass, a magnetic compass on the conventional instrument board and maps were his navigating facilities. The westward flight, as every layman knows, is immeasurably more difficult largely because of prevailing headwinds. The Question Mark, radio equipped, had a 650 h. p. Hispano-Suiza motor and a top speed close...