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...demise would leave a colossal gap in the U.S. economy-through its 5,000-odd normal customers. Die castings are a sine qua non of hundreds of consumer goods from zippers to outboard motors, from clocks to vacuum cleaners, from fire extinguishers to drug dispensers, from an essential small piston rod for automobiles to a whole radiator grille...
...Passaic, New Jersey, President, Roger A. Cunningham '42 of Lowell House and Thomas I. Crowell '43 of Lowell House and Caldwell, New Jersey, secretary. Brachman is the concertmaster of the orchestra, while Cunningham is assistant concertmaster. Past directors of the orchestra include such well known men as Walter Piston '24, Nicholas Slonimsky, and G. Wallaco Woodworth...
...time from 24 hours to two hours or less. In the neighborhood of absolute zero, ordinary lubricants freeze hard as iron and Kapitza's problem was to find a lubricant for his compressor. He solved the problem by allowing a little helium vapor to squeeze through the piston clearance, so that the helium itself did the lubricating...
...refrigeration work impressed Diesel with the amount of heat generated when gases are compressed. This is the basic principle of the Diesel engine, which has no electric ignition. In a Diesel, air is sucked into the cylinder, then highly compressed by the piston motion so that its temperature rises to around 1,000° F. Atomized fuel is then shot into the cylinder where it is ignited by the heat. The high temperature enables the Diesel to burn cheap fuel. Powdered coal and cheap oil were the first fuels that Rudolf Diesel puttered with...
...Long (97.451 m.p.h. over a measured mile) and George Cannon's Gray Goose III (92.309 m.p.h.). Motorboats have gone faster (Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird II hit 141 m.p.h. last year), but for a Gold Cup boat, limited to engines of 600 to 732 cu. in. piston displacement, 97 m.p.h. was going some...