Word: turbo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rentschler, "we got our hands good and dirty in jets." Then Pratt & Whitney, working with Rolls-Royce, developed a much more powerful jet, the J-48. Boss Engineer Luke Hobbs was also blueprinting the designs for a different type. Last year his men finished the axial-flow T-34 Turbo-Wasp, an intermediate jet type which drives a propeller. Hobbs pushed on to the pure-jet J-57, last January had the first model in a test block. As its blast shook the concrete floor of the test cell, Jack Homer said: "Well, I think we have overshot the field...
...power the tanks, Chrysler last week got a war order for $100 million worth of Continental-designed engines. It will make them in New Orleans' huge Higgins, Inc. (boats) plant. For another big war order-Pratt & Whitney J-4,8 Turbo-Wasp jet engines for Navy fighters-Chrysler will have to build another plant. Because cutbacks in auto production, brought on by material shortages, have already thrown thousands of workers out of their jobs in Detroit, Chrysler would build the plant near Detroit and put some of the idle hands to work. Chrysler was already producing special Army trucks...
...Wright Aeronautical Corp. described this week its "Turbo-Cyclone 18 Compound Engine," designed for the utmost fuel economy. It has a conventional piston engine in front and three small turbines driven by the exhaust gases. The turbines add 20% more power, but use no extra fuel...
...demonstration of the Whizzard caused much excitement in gas-turbine-minded Britain. Other British motor manufacturers are hard at work on turbines. The Rover engineers, first to get the turbo-car completed, believe they are at least a year ahead of U.S. rivals...
...melt together pig iron, scrap steel, iron ore and limestone. The carbon is oxidized by the oxygen in the iron ore and goes up the stack as carbon dioxide. Other impurities are absorbed by the limestone slag on the surface of the molten iron. U.S. Steel's new "Turbo-Hearth" furnace blows jets of air across the surface of a pool of molten pig iron. The oxygen in the air combines with the impurities, removes them from the iron, turns the iron to low-carbon steel. This method is not very different from the Bessemer process, which blows...