Archive for the 'Transport' Category

Dornier Monster Seaplane 1929

Seaplane Up with 170 Passengers
WITH 169 persons numbered in the official list of passengers and crew, the Dornier monster seaplane DO-X recently made a flight of nearly an hour over Lake Constance, Switzerland. A four-year-old boy not counted in the records brought the total to 170 persons, by far the largest number ever taken aloft [...]

Advances in Aviation 1929

AERONAUTIC ADVANCES
by ALEXANDER KLEMIN, Sc.M.
Professor of Aeronautics,
New York University
ONEÂ ofÂ the most striking developments of the year in aeronautics has been the use of ethylene glycol in the cooling of aircraft engines. Since water boils at 212 degrees F., operating temperatures must be kept down to 180 degrees. With ethylene glycol an operating temperature of [...]

Automotive Advances for 1929

AUTOMOBILE ACHIEVEMENTS 1929
by ALFRED REEVES
General Manager,
National Automobile Chamber of Commerce
WHILE the motor production for the year just concluded was climbing well above the five-million mark, and sales abroad were in the neighborhood of one million vehicles, scientific advances were underwriting stability for the motor industry.
In short, we cannot divorce the study of this industry from [...]

Take Your Own Car to Europe 1927

TAKING YOUR OWN CAR TO EUROPE” MADE EASIER
A LARGE travel for next year of American motorists taking their own cars to and from Europe is now assured, we read in a Montreal dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune, by the new arrangements which have been made by the Montreal Motorists League in cooperation with [...]

1927 Harley Davidson

Harley-Davidson 1/4 ton capacity Package Truck
Speed up deliveries at 1/3 present costs!
THE Harley-Davidson Package Truck is cutting down light delivery costs in 43 lines of business. It is the quickest known means of deliveryâ€”slips through traffic, parks anywhere, covers two or three times as many miles in a day. And operating costs are but 1/3 [...]

Three Cylinder Train Engine 1925

THE THREE-CYLINDER LOCOMOTIVE
WHAT HE CHARACTERIZES as “perhaps the most significant of our modern locomotive advances” is described in The Scientific American (New York, February), by Albert C. Ingalls. It is the first successful development in America of the three-cylinder locomotive. There is nothing complicated about this new development, Mr. Ingalls assures us. Simply, instead of [...]

Roller Bearings installed on Rail Cars 1922

TO ABOLISH THE HOT BOX
AN ANNOYING DETENTION for an hour or so by a “hot box” on a car is not calculated to make friends A for the railroad on which it may occur. Sufferers will welcome the promise of a Detroit inventor, Leo K. Stafford, that a new form of roller bearing devised by [...]

First Air-conditioned Trains 1930

ARTIFICIALLY COOLED RAILROAD TRAINS
Railroad trains can hereafter manufacture their own weather as they roll along, and a Pullman or a day coach in midsummer may then be cooler than an outside cabin on an ocean liner. An air-cleaning and cooling system for cars on passenger-trains has just been successfully tested by the Baltimore & Ohio [...]