Word: constructors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tailless Plane. A triangular shaped "stork" plane, lacking conventional tail structure, flew 78 m.p.h. with a 8-h.p. motor, at Berlin. Its constructor, Alexander Lippisch, thus approximated the flying goal of an all-wing ship...
...Great dirigibles, constructed of alloy metals and as large as passenger litters, will take care of the trans-Atlantic trade of the future," affirmed General Umberto Nobile, constructor of the airship Norge, in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. General Nobile spoke at the Harvard Union last night on his flight to the North Pole...
...Zurich. He said he had constructed an "electric-radio" machine, that regulated blood pressure, whether high or low and he exhibited a box, like a radio receiving-set, of bulbs, coils, condensers, arms, doohickies, thingumbobs, gadgets, gimcracks. On top of the case are two brass arms, one of which constructor Pos points at the back of the patient's head, the other at his stomach-that is, at the medulla and the solar plexus. On goes a current stepped to very high frequency. Patients "have reported no sensation of warmth, of cold; no sensation of any kind." "There were...
Richard Pocock, the boat builder whom Coach Leader brought with him from Washington, and brother of the Seattle boat constructor from whom the Crimson shells were purchased, built a barge similar to the Leviathan, seating 16 oarsmen. The Eli barge has been christened the Cleopatra and while designed primarily for inexperienced candidates, it has been used frequently by the first squad with very satisfactory results...
According to world received last night through the B. A. A. a new shell for the first crew is being shipped today from Seattle, Washington. The new boat was built by the well-known constructor, George Pocock, and is a replica of the two purchased last spring Coach Stevens expects to have it on the water in about three weeks when spring practice will begin in earnest...