Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East Ohio Gas Co. began constructing three big spherical tanks, and a smaller cylindrical one, at their sprawling plant in Cleveland's east side. Each was a giant thermos bottle, cunningly built to contain a strange substance-natural gas reduced to liquid under intense cold. One tank leaked slightly, but it was repaired. After that the tanks performed a miracle of storage. The liquid they held, when vaporized would become 240,000,000 cubic feet of inflammable gas. One afternoon last week, a white, cloudlike stream squirted from one of them. A thick fog drifted up. Then the whole...
...Piper to Mattoon to get the pink cloth from Mrs. Cordes' porch. The laboratory could find no indications of gas or other chemicals upon it. Piper sat up all night reading chemistry books and announced the next day that the anesthetist was probably using chloropicrin, a heavy, colorless liquid made by chlorinating picric acid...
...M.P.H. Harper's group figures that the 240,000-mile trip to the moon would take only 48 hours; in the celestial vacuum their ship would attain a speed of 20,000 m.p.h. Their vehicle, probably using liquid oxygen and gasoline for fuel, would be propelled by a series of rockets whose shells could be jettisoned as they were used up; the ship would eventually weigh less than a tenth of its take-off weight. Passengers would be protected against acceleration effects by springy hammocks, against extreme heat & cold by rotation of the ship's outer shell...
...speed at which a rocket would have to travel to get free of the earth's gravity has been calculated as seven miles per second. The best rocket fuel yet tried (liquid oxygen and gasoline or alcohol) has a theoretical propulsive limit of two miles per second, and no actual rocket has approached that limit. Using the best present metal alloys and fuel, says Ley, a rocket ship designed for a round trip to the moon would have to be one-third the height of the Empire State Building-apparently a practical impossibility. But war research has improved fuels...
...rocket into outer space, it is most likely to be bald Professor Robert Hutchings Goddard of Clark University (TIME, March 2, 1936), who has been making rockets since 1907. No astronaut, Professor Goddard has restricted his aim to relatively low altitudes. He was the first to shoot a liquid-fueled rocket (in 1923), and at last account had fired one nearly a mile and a half high, at 700 m.p.h. Because he has published little on his findings and has experimented mostly in the privacy of a New Mexican desert, fellow rocketeers consider him a "mystery man." When war began...