Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commander was appointed-Lieutenant Commander Zachary Landsdowne. He was the official observer for the Navy on the British airship R-34, which crossed the Atlantic. He was later assigned to duty at the Zeppelin plant in Germany where the ZR3 is now being constructed for the U. S. No other officer in naval aviation has had the experience he has in handling rigid airships...
...largest electric light bulb ever made-22 in. high and 15 in. in diameter-side by side with the smallest, no larger than a grain of rice, was exhibited at the Sprague plant of the General Electric Company, East Orange, N. J. The monster bulb is of 150,000 candlepower and requires four large cables to supply the 30,000 watts it burns. Four long strips of heavily corrugated tungsten steel were used as filaments. The heat generated reached 3,200 degrees Centigrade, melting the glass. A large electric fan was used to cool the air. The inventor, George Bowerman...
...ingredients of of culture, learning, and scholarship, which are the rewards and results of a long life devoted to these things. Yale is fitted to teach and give these to a degree that younger institutions, which are better fitted for purely technical training cannot do. With the faculty, the plant, existent and proposed, the traditions and the willingness in the student body, these things may be assured so that Yale will become an enduring center of learning and producer of gentlemen in the highest sense...
...Harvard is run from below," said Mr. Marck, one of the University engineers, when interviewed by a CRIMSON reporter recently in Harvard's subterranean heating plant...
...Baltimore fire wiped out his plant. From the ruins he went to a telephone and called up a friend in Manhattan who owned an unused newspaper plant in Philadelphia. He bought the plant by telephone, he moved it to Baltimore and set it tip in an unused building. He obtained an old locomotive from the Pennsylvania Railroad and ran it alongside the plant, using its steam to furnish power for his presses. Ten days after the fire, The Baltimore News appeared once more, calling on the citizens of Baltimore to build a greater and more beautiful city...