Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...longest yacht in the world is John Pierpont Morgan's steamer Corsair. 304 ft. overall. Steam...
California. The California, largest merchantship (22,000 gross tons) ever built in the U. S. and the only liner driven by electricity, glided into New York Harbor last week to take on stores for her maiden trip to San Francisco. For motive power, fuel oil generates steam, which operates two turbines, which operate two dynamos, which operate two motors, which operate two propeller shafts, which make the ship go. She is vibrationless...
...March 8-"Steam Locomotives", Professor H. N. Davis, professor of Mechanical Engineering...
...347° Fahrenheit?more than hot enough to sear human flesh, to cook a potato, to convert water into steam (212° F.); but only half hot enough to melt lead...
...learn a lot of things which we ought to know; this statement, in fact, being true of the whole book. Are you aware, for example, that muscular activity is effected by chemical reaction; that the efficiency of our muscles is 25 per cent something better that that of a steam engine; that a frog's muscle can lift one thousand times its won weight? Have you a clear conception of what causes the "lubb" and the "dup" of the heart beat? All these question open up a new field to the casual reader, along...