Word: tandems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actual riding time of something more than 24 hours, the three riders pedalled into New York, winning, money for their backers in Cambridge, and giving evidence that they at least had not utterly resigned themselves to the gasoline age. A fourth rider at the start, mounted on a tandem bicycle, together with a couple of pairs of false whiskers, was missing at the finish...
...volts of static electricity for an instant's duration. Their passing flashes have been useful only to indicate the nature of natural lightning. General Electric's William David Coolidge two years ago succeeded in ramming 350,000 volts through three special vacuum tubes connected in tandem. He got the cumulative, cascading effect of 900,000 volts, which pounded a flood of electrons (particles of negative electricity) through a metal window in the end tube. These free but directed electrons butted the constituents of atoms around to degrees and for effects which physicists are still trying to calculate. Last...