Word: steams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...until 1842 when they hired a large hall on the present site of the National City Bank. About this time, the first great expansion in security values started with the de-velopment of the railroads. Strange stories were told of men who had bought stock in one of those steam engines and, without shoveling a coal, or nailing a tie, or laying a rail, had grown fabulously wealthy...
...inch. That is about the pressure of the earth's rocky crust 30 miles down, a pressure under which the friction of rock layers sliding on one another generates at least 1,600° Fahr. Such a hole would produce 4,000 horsepower if only 20% efficient, making steam of any quantity of water piped down it. If such a bore were impracticable, two larger shafts, five miles deep, could be dug by laborers in heat proof, air-cooled suits, and connected by long horizontal passages. At five miles, a heat between 400° and 450° would...
...officials had placed another barograph in his plane, unknown to Flyer Callizo, which registered only 14,764 ft. It is charged he inserted in the record-breaking barograph a sheet of paper with "42,650 ft." marked in invisible ink; when far out of sight, that he turned a steam jet on the paper; made the false line visible. Last week the Aero Club of France, at a private hearing, divested Flyer Callizo of his record and disqualified him for life from French air competition. The altitude mark reverts to Lieut. C. C. Champion, U. S., who has been...
...removed to the Company's depot, and yesterday morning she was completely together, ready for travel. After the regular [horse-drawn] passenger cars had arrived from Germantown in the afternoon, the tracks being clear, preparation was made for her starting. The placing fire in the furnace and raising steam occupied 20 minutes. The engine (with her tender) moved from the depot in beautiful style, working with great ease and uniformity. She proceeded about half a mile beyond the Union Tavern, at the township line, and returned immediately, a distance of six miles, at a speed of about 28 miles...
...Baldwin works, a new herd of 50 freight movers for the Southern Pacific R.R. Hitching the monsters together and delivering them all in large groups was a publicity stroke conceived by Samuel M. Vauclain who has put on the selling end of his business a head of steam proportionate to the pressures carried by his latest products...