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Novel detail of the new Boeing is a combination of electric light and Klaxon horn in the pilot's cockpit which automatically flashes and howls if the motors are cut below flying speed while the landing wheels are retracted...
When his second son Harold was killed in an airplane crash two years ago, Inventor Miller Reese Hutchison (dictograph, klaxon horn, acousticon) resolved to make some contribution to safety and efficiency of aircraft. Last week Dr. Hutchison, onetime (1913-17) chief engineer and personal representative of Thomas Alva Edison, brought forth his offering: "Moto-Vita," a device which measures the unburned gases in engine exhaust, enables a pilot to adjust his carburetor accurately in flight for complete combustion of fuel and, consequently, elimination of waste. Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks tried the Moto-Vita on a flight to Memphis, informally reported...
...rich but rancid. Result: booby, bosh and hokum. Fast and Furious (Reginald Denny). If a young man has had an arm broken, a skull cracked, a spine dislocated in an automobile accident and happens, therefore, to be so panicky that the mere squawk of a klaxon sends him scurrying up a tree, could anything at all ever persuade him to drive a racing car? Answer: Only a heroine with an entrancing figure, like Cinemactress Barbara Worth, who appears opposite Reginald Denny in an amusing automobile film that runs smoothly enough with standard equipment...
...very character of syncopation altered. Ragtime molted; Jazz, that Klaxon-throated Phoenix, rose from the ashes of untold night-club cigarets; the Blues crept on sly haunches out of the red-light alleys of Memphis, goose-fleshed the U.S. with the Macabre, demoniac plainsong of generations of junketing cats...
...adversely. The gas is heavier than air, and when discharged near the ground it stays there at the level of pedestrians. Professor Henderson's idea was a purely mechanical method of dissipating the fumes in open air. Now, however, comes Dr. Miller Reese Hutchison, inventor of the Klaxon auto horn, acoustic devices for the deaf, etc., with a short-cut to the heart of the problem-a chemical compound, which, introduced into the gasoline, eliminates most of the monoxide from the exhaust fumes, as well as the bothersome carbon deposits in the cylinders. The nature of the compound...