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...said: "It is well known that a very heavy current can be put through an electric motor for a short time and tremendous power secured, but if this current is continued for any length of time, the motor is burned up. Steam locomotives, on the other hand, can exert maximum power indefinitely." If the tug-of-war had been of one day's duration, added President Coffin, "several electric locomo-tives" would have been required to stop the steam locomotive...
...Increase the maximum enlisted strength of the regular Army from...
...defy discovery in times of trouble. But the yellow invasion will change all this. It must not be expected that any New York promoter will be satisfied to send only five hundred taxis to so promising a field for exploitation as London. And since New York taxis reach their maximum efficiency only when manipulated by New York chauffeurs, one must expect a proportional exportation of these valuable citizens. London laughs, and looks forward with pleasure to faster transportation; but she little knows the thrills, the dangers, and the daily accident lists which await...
...operation of the set is simple -as it must be for a man piloting an airplane, who has to receive or send messages while continuing his trip. Throwing a switch and turning a large knob till an ammeter on the dashboard shows a maximum reading is the whole tuning up process. A motor generator set, driven by a storage battery which the engine charges just as an automobile does, supplies the necessary pressure of 1,000 volts. Two hundred feet of trailing wire, let out when the plane leaves the ground, constitutes the antenna...
Generally speaking, the faster the landing speed, the greater the maximum speed possible with an airplane. The National Aeronautic Association, which controls all racing in the United Staes, has come out with the definite ruling that 75 miles an hour is the fastest speed at which any plane is "allowed" to land. In Europe, landing speeds of 100 miles an hour for racers are not unknown...