Word: motors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...celebration will start on Monday, June 12, with a gathering of all Technology men, past and present, in Huntington Hall, for a farewell ceremony to the Rogers Building. The entire body will then march to the embankment, where it will be met by a small fleet of motor boats. This crossing of the river will be made an aquatic jubilee. Progress in naval construction will be shown by the latest models of many types of vessels. It is planned to have torpedo boat destroyers and submarines in manoeuvres in the Basin, working in conjunction with fast motor boats and hydroplanes...
Professor Joseph C. Reilly of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will speak before the members of the Flying Corps in Emerson J tonight at 8 o'clock. This will be the first of a series of lectures on aeroplane motor construction and operation. Professor Reilly is widely known throughout the United States for his experiments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in aerodynamics and aerostatics. He is a professor of mechanical engineering...
...Flying Corps will make an inspection trip at the invitation of Ex-Governor Eugene Noble Foss through the B. F. Sturtevant factories at Hyde Park and at Jamaica Plain this afternoon. At Hyde Park is an aeroplane motor factory and at Jamaica Plain an assembling plant for aeroplanes. Members will receive practical demonstration in the mechanical side of aeronautics...
...been sighted in the vicinity of Spy Pond. He immediately notified the Commanding Officer of the Advance Guard of this information, and the latter at once despatched an officer's patrol to reconnoitre in that direction. This occasioned a short halt of the column, but within fifteen minutes a motor-cyclist arrived with a message from the front stating that the hostile patrols had been repulsed and that the progress of the command need not be further delayed. Throughout the advance messages were sent back and forth from head to rear of the column and the cyclists and mounted orderlies...
...conditions are such as would be met in case of actual war. The regulation infantry equipment is worn by each man, and the regiment engages in a sham battle every day with the United States regulars. Each man is supplied with blank cartridges; and artillery, machine guns, and armored motor cars are used in these manoeuvres...