Word: shafting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heflin: I have just read the Congressional Record of Jan. 28. I am glad my shaft struck home! It pierced your thick hide. It made you squeal...
...throng who knew aught of motors and who were able to push near enough to the cars to see, sensed at once that the Show held nothing new (of importance) from an engineering standpoint Certain cars, it is true, had effected minor improvements: additional bearings to the crank shaft (Dodge); rubber cushioning of engines (Buick); adding of a fourth speed (Paige); crankcase ventilation (Oldsmobile). But all of these features have been used before...
...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...