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...western front. Thirty thousand feet above the battleship Gneisenau, lying camouflaged at Brest, flew U.S.-built Flying Fortresses manned by the R.A.F. They had arrived through the substratosphere, unheard and unseen in the broad daylight; they had done so because behind each of the Fortresses' four engines were turbo-superchargers, feeding them fat air to breathe in the thin heights. Though the coast below was warm and summery, the planes were frosted over with rime. They cruised serenely above the effective range of ground fire and were on the way home long before German pursuit planes could struggle...
Thus, literally out of thin air, the turbosupercharger emerged last week as a menace to Hitler's power. It emerged, too, from 22 years of dusty neglect as a belated triumph for its inventor, Dr. Sanford Alexander Moss, 68, who developed the turbo long ago to help beat the Kaiser. As flyers in World War I reached for higher & higher altitudes, they found their engines losing power dangerously. Reason: atmospheric oxygen is as vital an aviation fuel as gasoline. At 20,000 feet, air is only half as dense as at sea level, at 35,000 feet one-fourth...
When Moss turned up at Dayton's McCook Field with his turbo in 1918, he met the traditional experience of all inventors: the "glassy eye," as he recalls, of skeptical industrialists and Army brass hats. He took them to the top of Pike's Peak, where a 350-h.p. Liberty motor gave only 230 h.p. in the thin air at 14,000 feet. When Moss cut in his supercharger, the motor roared away...
...multiplied the number of its customers 40 times by the simple expedient of expanding its list of products, a plan followed so thoroughly that 70% of last year's $10,000,000 business was in products such as Hancock Bronze Valves, Consolidated Power Control Valves, and Hancock Turbo-Injectors, which the company was not making...
...turn a subsidiary of National Power & Light Co., an Electric Bond & Share Co. affiliate). Although Pennsylvania Power already had contracts for emergency power from three other power companies and even from Bethlehem Steel, in 1928 it leased from Lehigh Valley Transit for $500,000 a year a turbo-generating plant at the corner of Front & Linden streets in Allentown. To date $4,300,000 has been paid for the rental of this emergency plant and in nine years it has been used twice- most recently for a few days during the 1936 floods. That time it had two weeks...