The world’s largest and most powerful air cooled airplane engine, the new 18 cylinder 2000 H.P. Wright Duplex-Cyclone, was announced Monday by the War department and is being inspected here by (left to right) VP George Chapline, Chief Engineer...
The first practice flying saucer may turn out to be this plane that will carry 100 passengers at speeds of 600 miles per hour. Six pivoting jet engines mounted around the edge of the plane will life it and land it almost vertically with downward...
Pumps, Shaft mines, Iron ore mines, Cornish engines
Chapin Mine Cornish pumping engine, Iron Mountain, Upper Michigan. Cornish Pumping engine located at surface with additional engines at various levels in the 1659 foot shaft
Pumps, Shaft mines, Iron ore mines, Cornish engines
Chapin Mine Cornish pumping engine, Iron Mountain, Upper Michigan. Cornish Pumping engine located at surface with additional engines at various levels in the 1659 foot shaft
Text from back of image: "Sometimes called the Super Fortress, this Titan of the air had a wing spread 45 feet greater than the Y1B-17. The XB-15 weighed 13 tons more, was 20 feet longer and three feet higher. Because of its extreme weight (35...
Text from image: "Stern Wheel Boat "D. Murchison" built in 1869. Length 120'-0" Beam 20'-0" Depth 5'-0" Engines 284 and 285." Engines: High pressure 15" diam. 60" stroke.
Text from image: "Steamer "Nutrius" built in 1869 to go to Venezuela. Length 136'-0" Beam 23'-0" Depth 5'-6" Engines 187 and 188." Engines: Inclined 16" diam. 72" stroke
Text from image: "Steamer "Jurua" built in 1873. Length 150'-0" Beam 26'-0" Depth 7'-6" Engines 404 and 405." Engines: Inclined High Pressure 20" diam., 6' stroke.
Text from image: "Hopper Dredge "Hoffman" Installation Main Diesel Engines and Generators. The Pusey and Jones Corp. Contract 1083. March 26, 1942. [Built for] U.S. Engineers Dept. [U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]."
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Table of Contents: Man-made dyes: the first 100 years; Pepperell peps up striped sheets; Brighter skins for modern buildings; Travel light, and love it; The news behind new car wax; Rocket engines sit for their portraits; bucket and brush go...
This triple duty Super Constellation, sporting a new military look, is ready to start long haul service with the Military Air Transport Service as a convertible transport that can be quick switched to carry passengers, cargo or hospital litter...
Deeply upholstered, fully reclining and reversible chairs, a sound-proofed cabin exceeding 6 feet in height and wide unobstructed aisles are among the interior features of the Luxury Airliner which has just been put into service by Transcontinental...
Whether your trip is 100 miles or 3000, the matchless comfort and luxury of the Lockheed Constellation speed the minutes as the four huge engines speed the miles. Interior fittings in the Constellation cabin, styled by the fames industrial designer...
Mrs. Rose C. Penna, 20, whose husband is entering the Signal Corps, is typical of the women now filling jobs of men who have gone into military service. The long Island Railroad has women cleaning engines as Rose is doing here; operating signal...
Building powerful engines to generate electricity- A crane man's view of the assembling of a giant turbine in the big plant of the Pelton Water Wheel Company, San Francisco. This big place, which resembles part of a bass horn, is a pipe through...
For the "hot test" at this automotive plant where six cylinder engines first come to life, overhead conveyors automatically find unoccupied test stands and carry each engine into place. (Photographed at Cleveland Engine Plant of Ford Motor Company)
