Word: shafted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lexington, Ky., one pint of nitroglycerin stood at the mouth of an oil shaft. A dog drank it. Workmen ran for their lives. Stimulated by his draft, the loaded cur pursued a rabbit. The rabbit leaped down a bank. Jumping after it, the dog exploded...
...adhered to lines of uniform width going over "hill and dale." A good account of Mr. Edison's first phonograph (1877) is contained in Edison: The Man and His Work by George S. Bryan, lately published (Knopf, $4.00). He had his mechanician mount a metal drum on a shaft with a balance wheel at one end, a crank at the other. On the drum's surface was incised a spiral line. On either side of the drum was a small tube; over the inner end of each tube was a parchment diaphragm; centred in each diaphragm and pricking into...
...Manhattan, one John A. Bosmans 32, Dutch inventor from Brooklyn, exhibited a novel gasoline engine having no connecting rods, wrist pins or crankcase, but instead, hollow pistons fastened directly to the drive shaft at their centre, propelled by two firing chambers each, one above and one below. Inventor Bosnians claimed to have refused a million for his patents; threatened to revolutionize automobiles...
...shaft and the flash wait, but are not yet found...
...test shafts to determine the nature of the soil have been sunk on the Oxford Street property which has been designated as a projected site for the new chemistry laboratory. The first shaft was driven to a depth of 23 feet and for two-thirds of the distance, a stratum of heavy gravel was encountered, admirably suited for a foundation. During the last seven feet, water was struck in a layer of very fine sand and a pump was necessary to keep the shaft...