Word: lift
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...machine would be independent of horizontal flying speed to create pressure under its wings and would be able to land and to start from the roofs of buildings in the heart of a city. This implies the necessity of a motor strong enough to swing a propellor which would lift the machine by sheer strength without the help of the wings. It is in fact the application of the principle laid down by Orville Wright that a kitchen table could fly with sufficient engine power...
Experiments in catapaulting the present type of machine, dependent for a start upon the swift passage of air over lift-creating planes, have increased the general interest in the possible development of the helicopter. In these experiments the machine is shot off a starting platform, much as a dart is thrown in the air. The start is so swift that the machine is able to pick up its flying speed and continue flight with its own engine...
Peter Cooper Hewitt and Francis Bacon Crocker have both experimented with the helicopter and obtained encouraging results. Scores of patents have been issued for this type of craft and the inventors have been divided into two classes--those who try to lift the machine by vertical propellors and those who attempt it with rotating wings...
...parts," perhaps the greatest misfortune derived from the non-ratification of the peace-treaty has seemed neglected. President Wilson has refused to lift the dry-ban yoke from the necks of a husky nation. The failure of the treaty prolongs war and thirst. Just at the time when people are looking forward to a different and more liberal order of things has the Senate so cynically proved to us that the sacrifices of the last two years have been in vain. Little did the poor unsuspecting public dream that the partisans of party politics would carry matters so far. Little...
While the Crimson banners streaming Lift the Crimson glory...