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...rotor principle. Strapped to his chest was an assembly of two horizontal rotors. He had skiis on his feet for landing gear, and a finlike tail attached to his stern. By blowing into a box on his chest, Pilot Kocher made the rotors revolve. The turning rotors created a suction ahead, into which Pilot Kocher & apparatus sailed gaily, while his excited friends trotted after him. The august New York Times, proud of its minute coverage of aviation, printed the picture in its rotogravure section under the momentous caption: A MAN FLIES ON HIS OWN POWER FOR THE FIRST TIME...
...greenish color and which disinfects the water while it is in the pool. The results of this addition can be tested by comparing a test tube full of water with a graded color chart. In addition, the floor of the tank is periodically cleaned by being subjected to the suction of a large curry comb, connected by a hose to the vacuum end of the pumps...
...rotor functions like a spinning baseball or tennis ball. As ball or rotor turns it piles up the wind on one side. A suction develops on the other side. So the ball or rotor moves forcibly in the direction of the suction...
...trick of Hindu fakirs whose eyes are deeply set is to fit suction cups over their eyeballs and from the cups suspend weights...
...rail Zeppelin" is 85 ft. long. Streamlined into its tail is a 600-h. p. in-line motor which drives a four-bladed "pusher" propeller. Testing for damage from the propeller blast, or from suction caused by the whizzing body, observers last week placed papers near the rails. As the locomotive roared by. none of the papers stirred, so effective was the streamlining...