Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Perpetual motion" machines are the patent examiner's biggest annoyance. A popular bicycle idea was one in which, besides the usual chain, there was a second chain connecting the rear wheel with the front wheel. Thus when the bicycle was fairly going, the rear wheel drove the front wheel, which pulled the bicycle, which turned the rear wheel. One inventor of such a bike was pretty persistent. He would not go away until an examiner asked him how he would stop the bicycle...
...biggest perpetual-motion men of recent years turned up his nose at the Patent Office. Garabed T. K. Giragossian went directly to Congress and enthralled Congressmen for seven years (1917-24) with stories of how the Garabed Free Energy Generator would save the U.S. a $30,000,000,000 annual power bill, win the War, redeem the Sahara, rescue Mankind from the curse of the steam engine, crime and insanity. Mr. Giragossian asked for a special Act of Congress to protect his discovery-"not a perpetual motion machine"-and got such an act (1917). President Wilson vetoed the bill, Congress...
...Overwhelmed a motion to keep the Navy from raising its forces to treaty strength, then passed without a record vote a naval appropriations bill of $457,805,261. Largest since 1920, the bill calls for construction of 24 ships and 555 airplanes, addition of 11,667 officers & men. ¶Rejected, because the Post Office Department had not sanctioned it, a Senate amendment to the Treasury-Post Office supply bill providing $2,000,000 for airmail service from San Francisco to Canton, China. Post Officers declared the service would cost the Department $1,820,000 per year, bring in only...
...strain-i. e. suffer an increase of wavelength, which should displace spectrum lines toward the red (long wavelength) end. Thus, light winging away from a heavy star should show a definite redshift. Obstacle to confirmation was that another and unrelated spectrum shift existed (the Doppler effect), due to the motion of the star away from or toward the observer. Last week the same Dr. Trumpler announced that he had solved the difficulty by measuring the redshift of nine "O" stars (hottest, brightest, heaviest in the sky) moving along in clusters with other stars. The redshift of these nine showed...
...that time eight reels of "audio motion picture" about South America will be shown to the class, now engaged in studying the physiography O that continent, in the lecture room of the Biological Institute. The films are presented by courtesy of the Pan-American Airways. All those interested are invited to attend...