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Puffing upon one cigaret after another, Miss Jones directed mechanics in attaching to the Cirrus engine of a Moth biplane a muffler of her own invention. As the plane sped along the runway and over the hangars there were noises-of thrumming propeller, snapping pistons, vibrating metal-but there was no bark of exhaust...
Miss Jones's device, about 18 in. long, outwardly resembles an ordinary Ford automobile muffler. Inside is a series of small "pinwheels" which retard the speed of the exhaust gases-"chewing up" the sound waves without creating excessive back pressure upon the engine. (The latter factor, involving loss of power, has been the principal drawback to most attempts at muffling.) The pilot who tested the Jones muffler in flight said the engine lost none of its normal speed-1,900 r.p.m...
Miss Jones, head of El Dorado Inventions, has been manufacturing automobile mufflers since 1913 when her ears were first assailed by an unmuzzled Ford in a Moline garage. Her idea for the airplane muffler she gleaned from contemplation of a grease-vapor exhaler set into the wall above a restaurant stove. Another of her products is a 2-lb. electric flatiron. Fiftyish, Miss Jones believes in the ability of women over 40, substitutes them for men at workbenches in her machine shops whenever possible...
Thomas Alva Edison in a fringed muffler, Mrs. Edison, four servants, a dozen laboratory assistants and five carloads of laboratory gear & raw materials, all rolled southward last week from New Jersey toward Fort Myers, Fla. Through the press rolled headlines. For Inventor Edison, having celebrated the golden jubilee of his electric light bulb, had signalized his annual winter hegira by an announcement that sounded fraught with gold...
...idea lacks only seven centuries, an aristocracy, royalty, an established church, royal characters, religious persecutions, a list of martyrs, and a national temperament for the cloister in education, pedigreed restriction in competition, a desire to wear a gown as a muffler around the neck, and a determination to get rid of the cheer leaders without killing them...