Word: crankshafts
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Late that evening, the Cincinnati found the missing plane, a con necting rod (between crankshaft and cylinder) broken by excessive strain due to oil pressure. Lieutenant Connell and his mates had not had to fall back on their stills (for drinking water) and fishlines-equipment the Hawaiian flight last year proved it advisable to carry...
...White Bus. The White Motor Co. brought out a new six-cylinder bus last week with a 100-h.p. engine, overhead valves, 7-bearing crankshaft, 4-wheel metal-to-metal air brakes, 9-in. balloon tires, double-drop frame, 2-stage springs. The body, which is a single-decker, holds 18 to 23 passengers in the de luxe model for interurban service, 25 to 29 for less taxing city service...
...needed in the automobile, so that here-after heavy cars will ascend into the Franklin class and the Franklin will turn into a balloon. A great new invention is going to perform all these wonders, a crankless engine, one that delivers the power, not by a heavy and cumbersome crankshaft, but by an oscillating disk. This disk, it is confidently predicted by the inventor, will transfer the power from engine to shaft with absolutely no waste of energy. Such perfect efficiency will permit a car to run a thousand miles on a single tank of gasoline. Advertising will no longer...
...applicant for the aviation corps, one of the most technical arms of the service, is quickly accepted by the Government if he has had a whole or part of a college education, whether or not he knows a carburetor from a crankshaft. An applicant without college training however, has to have considerable technical knowledge. We must of course, give great attention to our military courses, but we can do it without neglecting the academic training that the Government has so definitely approved...