Word: exhausted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ANTISMOG MUFFLER, developed by Inventor Eugene J. Houdry and Pennsylvania's Oxy-Catalyst, Inc., chemically removed up to 90% of auto's unburned exhaust gases in road tests by General Motors...
...their lead until a shy, deaf, self-educated Russian schoolteacher, got to thinking about air travel in the 1890s. Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky, born in 1857, wrote about space flight with amazing prescience. He chose the rocket as the only possible space engine and derived mathematically the speed that its exhaust gases would have to attain. He decided that it should burn liquid fuel. This conclusion he published in 1898, when not even an airplane had left the ground...
...hovering on the fringes of enemy territory, this concept is impractical in the days of heat-seeking defensive missiles such as Sidewinder because of the high temperature of a nuclear power plant. "It would," said one Washington wag, "just about suck the missiles off their assembly lines into the exhaust stacks...
...whisky in their 1958 car were caught despite 1) a carpet tack dispenser between the rear wheels, 2) a trap door designed to dump 10 Ibs. of tacks on the road in deeper emergencies, and 3) a pressurized oil tank that produced a thick smoke screen from the exhaust...
...airplane under attack can foil the Sidewinder under some conditions by firing a flare or other hot object to deceive it and lure it away. This is not easy, and not always effective. The flare must be nearly as hot as the jet exhaust, and it must be released at exactly the proper moment...