Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Resplendent with its shining brass trimmings, and still capable of doing a good 15 miles per hour on a down grade, one of the first horseless carriages of Cambridge, a 1909 model Maxwell has returned after over a decade of honorable retirement to the scenes of its former glory...
...home life of the Royal Family is similar to that of any well conducted household. . . . The Infante Alfonso has started a model stock farm. . . . The King is not a sportsman in the usual sense, but has taken up various sports for the benefit of the exercise...
...Stutz Vertical Eight, described as very powerful and "a brilliant performer in traffic," the first model of which was unveiled at its factory last month by Charles M. Schwab, the company's chairman...
Postman M. Ernest Dole described his invention as follows: "My secrets I will confide only to M. Painlevé. But I have here a photograph of my model in flight. . . . Observe that it has wings. They are used only to stabilize and control it, as it ascends from or returns to the earth. ... It flies not by means of a propeller, but by a device which sucks in the air and then expels it explosively with a force much greater than the 'wind' created by a propeller. . . . Thus there is no 'motor,' no 'engine,' only the device which creates by explosive...
Aeronautical experts opined that Postman Dole had been well advised to seek out M. Painlevé with his model. Statesman Painlevé is known among the little circle of the mathematically learned as a veritable genius for abstruse calculation, and he has long employed that faculty in toying with the difficult problems of aerodynamics. Intrepid, he was the first Frenchman to fly with Wilbur Wright. Since the early days of that adventure he has kept a firm grip upon both the practice and the theory of aeronautics...