Word: pistons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will fly nearly twice as fast and nearly twice as high as the present piston planes, pack 40 times the power in its turbine engines. It will shrink the world by 40%, making no spot on earth more than a day's distance from a jet airport...
RECORD FLIGHT across U.S. was set in trial run by American Airlines' first Boeing 707 jetliner in preparation for regular runs which begin in January. Los Angeles-New York time: 4 hrs. 43 min. At average 630 m.p.h., jet shaved the previously prevailing commercial piston-plane time by three hours...
Pyroceram is the invention of Dr. S. Donald Stookey, head of Coming's fundamental research department, was designed originally to provide a missile covering that would withstand extreme heat resulting from air resistance. Other uses under way or planned: ball bearings, piston heads, curtain walls for skyscrapers, bulkheads for nuclear ships. Most convincing demonstration to housewives of Pyroceram's properties: heating pots of it red-hot with an acetylene torch, then plunging them into ice water. Next housewares project: equally tough but fragile appearing tableware styled like costly china...
...fatigue. Not only my body is tired but my spirit as well. They were the most exciting years of my life. I never considered a car as an instrument to achieve an end, but as part of myself or better. I was a part of the car, like a piston or shifting gear. At Reims in 1948, when I had to quit because my gas tank was ripped, I felt as if my own flesh were wounded. This feeling of oneness with a car, and that I had luck in getting the best cars I could drive, made...
...layman's idea that because an automobile tire or piston wears out, so eventually must human organs, is only half true. In the youthful, still growing organism, cells divide rapidly, and all the components of the body (except nerve cells) are not only quickly added to, but also constantly replaced at the most intimate molecular level. This process does not stop with maturity; it goes on until death. But there is evidence that the rate of cell and tissue replacement slows down, until- perhaps at different times in dif ferent tissues - it is markedly less than the rate...