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Word: piston (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Turboprops are a sort of halfway mark between piston engines and the turbojets that drive fighter airplanes. Their inside works are very like the jets', but instead of putting all their propulsive energy into a blast of hot gas shot out the tailpipe, they extract some of it by means of a turbine set in the blast and use it to drive a conventional propeller. This compromise gives turboprops some advantage. They are simpler and lighter than piston engines, and they burn cheap, nonexplosive kerosene instead of high-octane gas. Unlike turbojets, they do not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Britain's Bid | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

More Payload. Vickers-Armstrong claims that the Viscount 700, the first turboprop airliner to pass its structural aerodynamic tests, has already proved itself superior to comparable airplanes powered with piston engines. It burns more fuel, but it carries a ton of extra payload because of the lightness of its engines. It cruises at 325 m.p.h. with 40 passengers, and is designed for short or medium runs, such as London-Paris and London-Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Britain's Bid | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Though Stravinsky refers to Irving Fine as "my son," his compositions are distinguished by originality of style. In an attempt at classification, Boston critics have dubbed him a member of the Stravinsky-Piston-Boulanger school, but the title is essentially meaningless. He writes with extreme craftsmanship and ingenious contrapuntal technique, marked by a delicate sense of appropriateness and taste...

Author: By Herbert P. Gleason, | Title: Faculty Profile | 4/13/1949 | See Source »

Radioactive isotopes are taking jobs in peacetime industry. Last week the California Research Corp. (a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of California) and the Atomic Energy Commission told now radioactive piston rings are being used to test the performance of lubricating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Isotopes at Work | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

When a labman wants one of the dangerous rings, he takes it out of the cave on the end of a three-foot stick. Working carefully, with special tools, skilled mechanics fit the ring onto the piston of a test engine. After the engine has run for a few hours, its lubricating oil becomes radioactive because of "hot" iron rubbed off the ring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Isotopes at Work | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

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