Word: propellor
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...Aeronautical Society's aeroplane "Harvard I" is nearing completion. The framework is almost ready for the cloth, and the engine and propellor are in the hands of the society ready for installation after preliminary tests in Pierce Hall...
...supporting surface of 200 square feet. The controlling elevators are the feature of the machine, and present 35 square feet of surface. The workmanship throughout is of spruce, hollowed for lightness and laminated for strength. The weight of the framework is about 150 pounds, and of the engine and propellor 200 pounds, making the total weight of machine and operator about 525 pounds, the lightest biplane ever built. The engine is four-cylinder, air-cooled, and will develop 30 horsepower...
...Veritas" was used for the coaching launch, as "John Harvard" is laid up for repairs on her propellor shaft, which was bent from running aground last week...
...make three boats, and will remain in this force for some time, in all probability. It is hoped that some way may be found whereby tank work may be made more nearly like open-water rowing, and a second plan has been proposed, it being the placing of propellor wheels on each side of the boat to quicken the circulation of the water. The first crew usually rows with this makeup: Stroke, Langford, Patterson, Longacre, Bailey, Rodgers, Marsh, Brown and Whitney...