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Thus, literally out of thin air, the turbosupercharger emerged last week as a menace to Hitler's power. It emerged, too, from 22 years of dusty neglect as a belated triumph for its inventor, Dr. Sanford Alexander Moss, 68, who developed the turbo long ago to help beat the Kaiser. As flyers in World War I reached for higher & higher altitudes, they found their engines losing power dangerously. Reason: atmospheric oxygen is as vital an aviation fuel as gasoline. At 20,000 feet, air is only half as dense as at sea level, at 35,000 feet one-fourth...
Planes were first supercharged by devices geared to their crankshafts. This saps the engine's driving power. Whimsical, fox-bearded Dr. Moss had a better idea: to harness energy which would otherwise be wasted-the engine's flaming exhaust gases. Drawing on his youthful attempts to devise a practical gas turbine for General Electric, Moss developed a thin-bladed turbine which the exhaust drove at about 20,000 r.p.m., geared this to a blower which shot compressed air into the carburetors at sea-level pressures...
...When Moss turned up at Dayton's McCook Field with his turbo in 1918, he met the traditional experience of all inventors: the "glassy eye," as he recalls, of skeptical industrialists and Army brass hats. He took them to the top of Pike's Peak, where a 350-h.p. Liberty motor gave only 230 h.p. in the thin air at 14,000 feet. When Moss cut in his supercharger, the motor roared away...
Then came the Armistice. Moss's supercharger was forgotten by everyone except a handful of G.E. and Army and Navy air service enthusiasts. The geared supercharger became standard equipment on planes, and in 1938, aged 65, Dr. Moss sadly retired from General Electric. But World War II set flyers again to striving for altitudes incredible in 1917, brought the turbosupercharger and its inventor off the shelf. Today Moss is further improving the turbo (details are military secrets). Last week G.E. was completing a windowless, $5,000,000 supercharger plant at Everett, Mass., and announced plans for a similar...
This answer to an advance man's prayer happened last week at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pa. Reason for it was the appearance (for ten performances) of Authors George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, aided and sabotaged by tongue-tied Harpo Marx, in their Broadway hit play, The Man Who Came to Dinner...