Word: steams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Turner '23, devoted three months to working on steam research calculation; David Robinson '24, is taking the Student Engineering Course. W. D. Ketchem '25, and C. C. Eaton, former Librarian of the Graduate School of Business Administration, were engaged in work in the Testing Department of the plant...
...Iron Horse. Heralds had busily prepared the advent of this luxuriously equipped film with announcements that it was a second Covered Wagon. When it arrived, it turned out to be a steam engine instead of a prairie schooner and not such an irresistable choo-choo at that. The story attempts to be an epic commemoration of the spanning of the U. S. with steel rails. It is probably pretty good history but there was oil on the tracks somewhere and the drama never got completely under...
...wheel trucks can carry loads large enough to operate effectively and efficiently without injuring the roadway?hitherto the real problem in bus and truck operation. According to Mr. Schwab, there are 2,941,274 miles of highways in the U. ,S. compared with 251,175 miles of steam railways and 47,150 miles of electric and street railways. He does not expect his new six-wheel buses and trucks to compete with railways "except in segregated instances," but rather to act as feeders to them...
Instrument-maker Watt, of the Univ. of Glasgow−Steam locomotion...
...magnetic blow-out for switches, lightning erectors of various types, constant current transmitters, a generator which was "one of the first and most effective and ingenious" in early electrical development, a recording watt hour metre. In the field of mechanical engineering he is respon sible for important developments in steam engines, steam turbines and the internal combustion engine...