Word: turbo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggest the tremendous power of the Lexington, the Navy's publicists have broadcast the fact that her 190.000 h. p. turbo-electric engines could develop enough electricity "to light a city the size of Philadelphia, to operate the transit facilities of a city the size of New York...
...Shipbuilding Co., onetime (1919-20) president of U. S. Chamber of Commerce, employer of 7,000 non-union men, stockholder in four textile mills. Mr. Ferguson's company is one of the South's great industrial concerns. It reconditioned the Leviathan after the War, built the turbo-electric Panama-Pacific liners Virginia, California, and Pennsylvania, as well as many a vessel for the Navy. Strongwilled, strong-spoken, Mr. Ferguson declared...
...their competition. Last month a shapely steel whale plunged down the ways at Newport News. Va., and was christened Pennsylvania. Last week fitters were busy installing finishings, running gear and, of special significance in a modern freight carrier, refrigerating and air-cooling machinery. Owned by the Panama Pacific line, turbo-electric driven, the Pennsylvania has twin sisters, Virginia and California. The Virginia began last winter to carry 33,000-ton loads of freight between Atlantic and Pacific ports. The California made her maiden voyage the winter before. The Pennsylvania will be ready for service in October or November...
...slid the liner Pennsylvania, biggest commercial vessel ever built in the U. S., constructed at a cost of $7,000,000 for the Panama Pacific Line (International Mercantile Marine). Specifications: 21,000 tons (approximating the America and Cedric); 613 ft. long, 80 ft. beam; two 8,500 h. p. turbo-electric motors capable of 18 knots; capacity, 800 passengers. In service next October, she will ply between New York and San Francisco in 13 days...
...problems raised in constructing increasingly large water wheel and turbo-generators are for the most part mechanical," declared Morris Stone '23 research engineer for the Westinghouse Company, in a recent interview with a CRIMSON reporter. "Seven years ago the largest generator was capable of producing only 20,000 kilowatts; but recently a 95,000 kilowatt generator has been built and at present one is under construction which will produce 160,000 kilowatts. In increasing the size of these generators, the electrical companies have been facing mechanical rather than electrical difficulties...