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...Lepere plane nor any lack of the pilot's endurance that pre-vented victory, but the breaking of the supercharger, whose function is to maintain the power of the motor in rarefied air. The undismayed Macready will try again, with another supercharged plane which theoretically can reach 45,000 feet, or nearly nine miles of altitude...
Tdhe tank is no longer the dreaded back-breaking institution it used to be. With a 90 horse-power airplane motor to keep the water moving with its two propellers at a moderate rate, and with the continued use of the perforated oars, conditions of rowing indoors are made to approach as nearly as possible those outdoors in the river. Mirrors have been placed along the walls so that oarsmen may see their own errors. The refitting and the installing of the motor have been under the direction of Professor Warren...
...Nikola Tesla, Austrian immigrant who became an electrical magician, inventor of alternating current motor, high-frequency generator, and various devices and systems of generation, transmission, wireless...
...Benjamin G. Lamme, chief engineer, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., mathematical calculator of a practical railway motor and many other machines...
...President, the Party nominated William J. Wallace, of Newark, N. J., President of the Eck Dynamo and Motor Co.; for Vice President, J. C. Lincoln, President of the Lincoln Motor Works of Cleveland...