Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Brothers Rust were born on a Texas farm, orphaned in boyhood. They picked cotton. John swore that some day he would invent a cotton-picker to eliminate that back-breaking toil. He learned engineering and drafting from correspondence courses. Because he remembered that his grandmother moistened her spinning wheel to make cotton stick to it, the idea occurred to him to try a smooth, wet spindle on a mechanical picker. Soon he was joined by Brother Mack, who had graduated from the University of Texas and gone to work for General Electric Co. in Schenectady. Their first machines were tried...
Force, by Alex J. Krupy of Chicago, a study of a glistening drive wheel of a locomotive at rest...
...Paul, Kenneth Makepeace won a car for himself in a department store contest by guessing the number of revolutions made per week by the wheel of a free-running automobile in the store. Then with the same technique he won a car for his friend Julius Janisch, sued for half the profits. Kenneth Makepeace's figuring: "I put a pencil against the wheel and counted the number of times the valve stem hit it. That was the revolutions per minute. I multiplied that figure by the number of minutes per week in an 81-hour day. The next step...
Reduced to simplest terms, the machine has ten "integrators," each of which is set by a hand dial to compute the effect of a variable quantity on the problem to be solved. Each dial sets two movable parts -an 8-in. stainless steel disk, mirror-smooth, and a smaller wheel with a knife edge in contact with the disk. Governed by precisely controlled friction, the speed of the small wheel is the crucial factor in solving any problem. A bevel gearing delivers that factor to the "answer table" where the factors from all the integrators are combined and the final...
...inert non-resident students must soon realize it; put his shoulder to the wheel and help establish this, now tentative, organization. Its benefits are incalculable, and its resulting opportunities and advantages are worthy of every effort and sacrifice...