Word: compressor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test tube-from kerosene to peanut oil. Its basic works are uncomplicated. It sucks air through an intake and compresses it in a chamber into which fuel is sprayed and ignited by a spark plug (see diagram). The expanding gases drive one turbine wheel that spins the air compressor and then rush on to whirl another turbine that drives a shaft. Turbines in their simplest form have major disadvantages, but where these are not of prime importance, they are already hard at work. They run standby generators in telephone exchanges, drive an Army 13-car overland troop-supply train...
...Philco as a company without the money to capitalize on opportunities, but with an enviable record of scientific development: the first TV set that would operate without a roof aerial in 80% of U.S. homes, the first horizontal freezer compartment in the top of a refrigerator, the hermetically sealed compressor system for room air conditioners that has made possible today's compact air conditioners. Ford followed Beck's advice to buy Philco, put Beck in as president...
...four hot jet fighters: the F-86K. F-89H. F-1O2 and F-105B. The 105 nearly did him in. He was booming along at 1,000 m.p.h. when a piece of the intake duct broke off and shot through the entire engine. "If it had torn up the compressor," he says now. "the whole plane would have blown...
...difference may be hard to tell. Ruhr-born Miller joined Demag in 1927, five years after Hans Reuter went to work there, and rose from compressor salesman to head engineer. For the past two decades, he and Reuter have worked together 14 hours a day, automating Demag's production lines, planning new products, and maneuvering salesmen around the globe to outbid competitors. A slow-spoken technocrat, Miller is alleged by his plaintive subordinates to start his work day "shortly after midnight...
...engine is a gas turbine affair-adapted in principle from the turbojet airplane engine-which Chrysler has been working on for years (TIME, March 29, 1954). A compressor forces air into a chamber where it is heated and then mixed with fuel (see diagram). A single spark plug ignites the mixture, and the expanding hot gases drive two turbines. The first turbine turns the original air compressor, and the second turns the power shaft that connects to the rear wheels. The exhaust gases are recycled into a regenerator to heat the incoming...