Word: compressors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sputnik Choo-Choo. A space-age toy electric train with an airborne satellite was introduced by Kusan-Auburn Inc. As the train starts, a white ball of styrofoam rises on a steady stream of air from a car with a twin-turbine compressor, floats along one foot above the train until it stops. Other gimmicks: a revolving radar screen, searchlight, laboratory car, four extra satellites. Cost...
...pump operates by electricity, uses a motor compressor and coils much like a refrigerator to keep the house at comfortable temperatures. In summer it draws the hot air out of the house through ducts, runs it over a refrigerated coil, circulates the cooled air back through the house. In winter, the pump draws in the cold outside air, picks up heat from it by passing it over an even colder coil; the heat is then transferred by fluid to a compressor, which raises the fluid to a high temperature, passes it to a second coil used to heat inside...
PIPELINE EXPANSION by the Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. will add 25% to its Eastern supplies if Federal Power Commission approves. At cost of $166 million, Tennessee Gas wants to add 1,085 miles of new pipe and a series of bigger compressor stations to boost capacity of 2,200-mile system running from Texas to New England by 456 million cu. ft. daily, bring it to nearly 2.5 billion cu. ft. capacity...
...generated by a stream of gas varies with the stream's diameter. The big stream that shoots from the tailpipe of a jet engine stirs up a lot of low-frequency sound that carries for miles as a thunderous roar. Small gas streams, e.g., air escaping from a compressor hose, give high-frequency sound. Much of it is too high-pitched to be heard at all, and much of the rest is absorbed by the air before it has traveled...
...bypass engine is an intermediate type that stands midway between the turbojet and the turboprop. It has two compressors, each driven by its own turbine through its own shaft (see diagram). Some modern turbojets have this arrangement too, but all the air that is compressed passes through the combustion chambers to form the high-speed jet. In the bypass engine, part of the air from the forward compressor flows around the combustion chambers (incidentally cooling trie engine's skin) and mixes with the speeding gas in the tailpipe. It cools the stream and slows it, but adds greatly...