Word: designed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since it really got down to work 21 years ago, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (founded by Act of Congress in 1915) has turned out many a valuable contribution to aircraft and engine design. Its studious scientists, working in a grotesque collection of wind tunnels and other research machinery at Langley Field, Va., can point to NACA discoveries (cowlings, wing designs, etc.) on every airplane flying today...
Unfortunately for the visitors, this aeronautical wonder was too wonderful to be shown. Suave Dr. Lewis refused to say how much it would add to the speed of airplanes but it appeared the addition would be 20% to 30% over present design...
...engine cowling which can be used in 500-mile-an-hour airplanes. Cowlings of present design work all right at speeds under 325 m.p.h., but wind-tunnel tests show they cause a "compressibility burble" (violent eddy) above that speed, set up so much resistance that doubling or tripling engine horsepower adds no speed...
Staircase Group (c. 1795), by Charles Willson Peale, an almost "modern" design, showing two figures on a winding stair. Note: "the canvas was originally framed in the woodwork of a doorway . . . [and] Washington once absentmindedly bowed to the young gentlemen represented...
...alone. He personally arranged and signed most of the major contracts, hired most of the important employes. His salary is supposed to be $100,000 and he earns it with such smart stunts as the commercial tie-ups he arranged for the fair. He has licensed the trylon & perisphere design for use on some 25,000 products-wallpaper, jewelry, furniture, cameras, rugs, etc.-at a royalty of 3 to 10% of the wholesale price of such articles sold. This has already produced $100,000 in unbudgeted revenue, is expected to bring in $1,000,000 eventually...