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...apparatus used in the project, though originally provided by Pratt and Whitney, is now the property of the University. The supersonic tunnel has been used in a variety of different ways, such as the study of super-sonic shock waves.The axial flow compressor shown here supplies volumes of air up to 30,000 cubic feet per minute to the wind tunneis. Besides the axial flow compressor, there is a centrifugal compressor. Axial flow has largely taken the place of centrifugal flow on the power plants that drive modern jet aircraft. The large size of the above compressor can be observed...
Sound Cleaner. Fairbanks Ward Industries in Chicago told about its portable "Electro-Sonic" washing machine: a foot-high aluminum cylinder with an electrically activated heart. The heart's beatings create sound waves too high for the human ear to hear. The waves ripple through the wash water, driving soapy jets through the tightest-woven cloth. There are no drum or paddles to maltreat the clothes. The machine, says Fairbanks Ward can wash its own weight (14 lbs.) in clothes at one time...
...bank of lenses. A thin mirror, spinning at 10,000 r.p.m., flashes the moving image from lens to lens down the film strips. As many as 100 snapshots can be taken in 1/120,000th of a second. Probable purpose of the superspeed camera: to photograph the luminous, super sonic shock wave from the early stages of exploding A-bombs...
...could (if permitted), Von Braun claims, tell about tested methods of overcoming the obstacles pointed out by his opponents. He is sure that many "terrors of space" will evaporate like the "sonic barrier," which once was thought to limit the speed of airplanes...
...flight when he lands on the ground; the camera tilting crazily, as if it were careering through the sky, while focused on Tycoon Richardson shakily listening in his office to a radio report of a crucial test. Through the picture, like a macabre musical motif, runs a sonic soundtrack: great swooping wooshes, the piercing wail of the Vickers Supermarine 535 Swift as it dives from 40,000-ft. heights toward the buffeting, invisible barrier of sound...