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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even more radical in design than the Hammond is the tailless plane developed in California by an oldtime test pilot named Waldo Deane Waterman. Tall, sandy-haired, pipe-smoking Inventor Waterman, previously known for his experiments with a low-wing tailless monoplane called the Waterman Whatsit, has produced as his new model a high-wing ship called the Arrowplane. This highly unconventional design features V-shaped wings which sweep back to tapering tips on which are mounted vertical rudder fins. The ailerons are so rigged that they also serve as elevators, thus simplifying control. The chunky two-place cabin...
...This," grinned lanky Inventor Waterman after his demonstration, "is the plane that designers said was impossible." He has been experimenting with airplane design for 25 of his 41 years, has spent three years on his present ship, believes it could retail for $800 if produced in quantity...
...strings. Instead of manufacturing their own actions, most U. S. piano makers buy them readymade. Biggest action manufacturer is Pratt, Read & Co. in Deep River, Conn. In Chicago last week Pratt, Read & Co. was showing the revolutionary action which it bought from William Finholm after that young inventor had turned down a small offer from Steinway & Sons. The Finholm action, approved by most music men who tried it in Chicago last week, is less complicated than the standard one which he hopes it will supersede. Chief feature is that it does away with eleven pounds of the lead which...
...peacetime flyer perishes in a crash from which he would have emerged with nothing but bruises had not his fuel burst into flame. A new fuel designed to stop such tragedies was demonstrated this week at New York University's Daniel Guggenheim School of Aeronautics by its inventor, a towering, beefy, Prussian-born chemist named Adolph Prussin. The fuel, called "Solene," is gasoline which has been turned into a solid...
...Depression," explained Inventor Merkl. "Nothing to do. I swear I make a trap to catch anything. First I figure and figure. Then I improve and improve. All 100% humane traps. No one gets hurt. The animals, they like it. They sit there inside, nice and quiet, and look out. Only the coon, he woof at you when you come. They go in my traps. I guarantee...