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Diesel engines are the most important product in the long Fairbanks, Morse line normally accounting for about one-half of total sales. Electric motors, generators and appliances rank second. Fairbanks Morse is one of the biggest pump-makers in the U. S. It supplies railroads with inspection cards, water-tanks and coaling stations. But for every person who has seen a Fairbanks, Morse municipal power plant or a Fairbanks, Morse oil pipe-line pumping station, thousands in every corner of the civilized world have seen Fairbanks scales...
...penny has been scrimped on research during Depression, for the Colonel's passion is mechanical improvement of his products-a stronger selling point for industrial goods than for consumer goods, in which style, color, packaging are often all-important. Fairbanks, Morse always tries to sell the pump that goes with the windmill for the generator that goes with the Diesel engine, so that it will have undivided responsibility for the engineering of the complete installation...
...Lindbergh (LL. D., Northwestern and Wisconsin) put his mechanical wits to work and in May 1931 was able to publish anonymously in Science a skimpy description of a pump which Dr. Carrel desired and he designed. It consisted of a spirally coiled glass tube, resembling a hot water heater. The top opening of the Lindbergh tube was connected to the bottom opening by a straight glass tube, and the liquid sealed into the closed tubular circuit. By standing the coil on end and wobbling it, centrifugal force pushed the fluid up to the top of the spiral. There the fluid...
This was a germ-proof pump. By suitable ingress and outlet, Dr. Lindbergh was able to force oxygen or other gases into the continuously circulating fluid and draw it off again. Thus he had a mechanical duplicate of the lungs, heart and blood vessels. Nothing remained but to modify this apparatus so that Dr. Carrel could attach a heart, kidney or ovary...
Pushing ahead with their experiment. Drs. Carrel and Lindbergh chloroformed and bled to death adult chickens and cats. They extirpated hearts, kidneys, ovaries, adrenal glands, thyroid glands, spleens and within an hour connected the arteries of those organs with the circulating system of their aseptic wobble pump. Pump and organ were inclosed within an aseptic glass tank...