Word: motor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...used to swallow when he was a 332-pounder in the White House and when he said, "Things are in a sad state of affairs when a man can't even call his gizzard his own!") Until 11:30, he reads and dictates in his study; then by motor to the Capitol, to sit from 12 to 2; then the luncheon recess and the one real meal of the day (meat, vegetables); sitting again, until 4, and home by motor. This is the hour when children who play in the vicinity of the Connecticut Avenue bridge espy the huge...
Valveless Motor. Two Houston, Tex., mechanics, H. S. Lyons and Victor Toce, last week demonstrated a two-cycle, four-cylinder internal combustion gasoline motor that had no valves or carburetor and only 13 working parts. A "turbulator" breaks the gasoline into fine spray; two spark plugs for each cylinder explode the gasoline spray...
Elected. Walter P. Chrysler, onetime railroad mechanic, now motor car mogul, to be a director of the Erie...
Diesel. Near Utica, Mich., last week, Packard Motor Co. successfully tested the first Diesel type engine to be used in an aircraft, declared that the oil burning motor increased efficiency 25%, banished danger of fire from gasoline, eliminated electric ignition systems, carburetors, spark plugs, other nuisances...
...cross country flight in any type of plane. Yes, he had flown from London. No, his plane was, not strictly speaking, a heliocopter. Two small wings projected from it, and it had a propeller, but the huge four bladed pinwheel surmounting the fuselage, deriving power not directly from the motor but from the forward motion of the plane, gave five times the lift of the conventional propeller. This device permitted almost vertical ascent or descent. It also increased immunity from the dangers of motor trouble over unlevel country...