Word: carburetor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took a sniff of his oxygen to keep his head clear. The climb became only 2,000 feet a minute. He climbed three, four, five, six miles. The engine began to slow down for lack of air. He turned on the super charger to increase air pressure in the carburetor...
Vice President Queeney described the "generator" thus: "It consists of an aluminum pot in which is set a nest of stationary thin-curved plates radiating from a central core. The pot is heated by the exhaust from the engine. The fuel is drawn from a standard carburetor through the inside of the pot over the surface of the warm plates, where it is converted into a dry gas and there it passes through the intake manifold into the cylinders...
Valveless Motor. Two Houston, Tex., mechanics, H. S. Lyons and Victor Toce, last week demonstrated a two-cycle, four-cylinder internal combustion gasoline motor that had no valves or carburetor and only 13 working parts. A "turbulator" breaks the gasoline into fine spray; two spark plugs for each cylinder explode the gasoline spray...
Borg and Beck Co. (automobile accessories), Marvel Carburetor and Mechanics Machine...
Briskly, young Black Mustache stepped from his car, peeled off coat, rolled up sleeves, fiddled with the carburetor of the stalled car, and within ten minutes had its motor briskly humming. Only then did the torpid professors recover sufficient alertness to note upon the motor car of their Samaritan the royal arms and rampant lion of Bulgaria. Figuratively rubbing greasy eyes, the pedagogues stared hard at Black Mustache, and recognized at last His Majesty Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria, 34 and still the most eligible of Balkan bachelors...