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Quarry Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Year 1923

Description: Report published by the U.S. Bureau of Mines which is a compilation of accidents in quarries located in the United States with data regarding the number and kinds of accidents as well as information about the mining operations (e.g., number of men employed, kinds of quarries, amount of work performed, etc.).
Date: 1925
Creator: Adams, William W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Legendary "White Metal" and its "Ore"

Description: Report concerning stories about claims of a "white metal" extracted from an "ore" found packed around pieces of iron or steel. It includes information about various tests conducted about the validity of these claims and their findings.
Date: December 1925
Creator: Davis, C. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Motor-Vehicle Headlighting

Description: A report on the necessity of improved motor-vehicle lighting.
Date: August 5, 1925
Creator: Carlson, R. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Radio-Frequency Resistance and Inductance of Coils Used in Broadcast Reception

Description: Technical paper issued by the Bureau of Standards over radio-frequency resistance in radio reception. As stated in the introduction, "the purpose of this paper is to present data on the radio-frequency resistance and inductance of coils within the range of frequencies used in radiotelephone broadcasting" (p. 651). This paper includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: October 22, 1925
Creator: Hund, August & De Groot, H. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Motor-Vehicle Headlighting

Description: Report issued by the Bureau of Standards discussing the improved illumination of night-time driving with the use of vehicle head-lighting. Methods of construction and adjustment information are presented. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: 1925
Creator: Carlson, R. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Latécoère Air Lines

Description: This article presents the observations of the authors on an inspection trip of the Latecoere Air Lines routes from Southern France into North Africa.
Date: August 1925
Creator: Van Zandt, J. Parker
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Preliminary Report on British Commercial Aeronautics

Description: This report briefly recounts the history of British commercial aviation and then goes on to look at the equipment, governmental relations, operations, and air traffic.
Date: September 1925
Creator: Van Zandt, J. Parker
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atomization of Liquid Fuels Part 1: Relation Between Atomization and Combustion, Methods Employed for Determining the Size of Particles and Small Drops, Choice of Experimental Method

Description: In the present treatise we will consider chiefly the problem of solid injection in comparison with air injection. On leaving the valve or nozzle through one or more small openings, the fuel is split up into innumerable fine drops, which penetrate the combustion chamber in divergent directions in the form of a conical jet. The efficiency of this jet is judged from the following three viewpoints: 1) with respect to the fineness of atomization; 2) with respect to the direction or distribution of s… more
Date: September 1925
Creator: Kuehn
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Potential Flow in Engine Valves

Description: "The extensive applicability of the hydrodynamic theory to the problems of engine construction is clearly shown in the following attempt to determine by exact methods the nature of the flow in valves under variously restricted conditions. Observation shows that two principal kinds of flow occur in simple flat-seated valves. For small valve lifts, the flow is along the horizontal wall and is therefore deflected 90 degrees, but for greater valve lifts the flow separates and forms a free stream, w… more
Date: December 1925
Creator: Eck, Bruno
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Light Airplane

Description: T.M. 311 gave a short outline of modern theoretical aerodynamics as applied to light airplane design. This discussion may have been somewhat obscure to the nontechnical reader. A series of charts or curves should serve to clear up such obscurity as well as to more definitely emphasize those quantities most important for each flight characteristic.
Date: August 1925
Creator: Driggs, Ivan H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Theory of Flapping Flight

Description: "Before attempting to construct a human-powered aircraft, the aviator will first try to post himself theoretically on the possible method of operating the flapping wings. This report will present a graphic and mathematical method, which renders it possible to determine the power required, so far as it can be done on the basis of the wing dimensions. We will first consider the form of the flight path through the air" (p. 1).
Date: October 1925
Creator: Lippisch, Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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A Method for the Direct Determination of Wing-Section Drag

Description: In order that the method may be more easily understood, we will first consider the simpler case when there is no lift, but only drag, and when the streamlines at the measuring point behind the obstacle are nearly parallel. Moreover, the flow is assumed not to deviate much from the two-dimensional flow.
Date: November 1925
Creator: Betz, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Strength Calculations on Airplanes

Description: "Every strength calculation, including those on airplanes, must be preceded by a determination of the forces to be taken into account. In the following discussion, it will be assumed that the magnitudes of these forces are known and that it is only a question of how, on the basis of these known forces, to meet the prescribed conditions on the one hand and the practical requirements on the other" (p. 1).
Date: December 1925
Creator: Baumann, A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Wire Suspensions in Wind Tunnel Experiments

Description: The elimination of the rigid supports for models and their replacement by wires constitute a great improvement by rendering negligible the interactions of support. There are disadvantages to wire, namely, the aerodynamic resistance is very large and their use is rather difficult because the whole suspension lacks rigidity and easily becomes distorted. We will here investigate the nature of these distortions, evaluate the errors they entail and describe the methods for taking account of or avoid… more
Date: December 1925
Creator: Kerneis, Jean
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[Memorandums on the Subject of Joukowski Wings]

Description: In the first article, in connection with a lecture on the hydrodynamic basis of flight and the potential flow about a Joukowski wing, the pressure distribution on several wings is computed and plotted. The diagrams of the pressure distributions are presented accompanied with a qualitative discussion of the pressure distribution. In the second article, the the cross-sectional outline (or profile) a Joukowski wing are plotted.
Date: October 1925
Creator: Blumenthal, Otto & Trefftz, E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Atomization of Liquid Fuels Part 2: Description of Apparatus, Fuels Tested, Atomization Experiments, Discharge Measurements, Atomization

Description: This report describes the design and operation of a nozzle to inject fuel into an engine. The design of the nozzle is open, without any compulsory or automatic stop-valve. The fuel injection is regulated simply by the pressure and the adjustment of the fuel pump.
Date: September 1925
Creator: Kuehn, R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An Introduction to the Helicopter

Description: It is the object of this report to review briefly the aerodynamic and construction data already available regarding helicopters and to set forth the difficulties which must be met.
Date: 1925
Creator: Klemin, Alexander
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Some Problems on the Lift and Rolling Moment of Airplane Wings

Description: This report deals with the application of the airfoil and twisted wing theory to the calculation of the lift and rolling moment of airplane wings. Most of the results arrived at are strictly true only for wings of elliptic plan form. The investigation aims to give some indications of the accuracy with which the results can be applied to the wing forms in actual use.
Date: 1925
Creator: Scarborough, James B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The effects of shielding the tips of airfoils

Description: "Tests have recently been made at Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory to ascertain whether the aerodynamic characteristics of an airfoil might be substantially improved by imposing certain limitations upon the air flow about its tips. All of the modified forms were slightly inferior to the plain airfoil at small lift coefficients: however, by mounting thin plates, in planes perpendicular to the span, at the wing tips, the characteristics were improved throughout the range above three-tenth… more
Date: 1925
Creator: Reid, Elliott G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The sparking voltage of spark plugs

Description: This report has been prepared in order to collect and correlate into convenient and useful form the available data on this subject. The importance of the subject lies in the fact that it forms the common meeting ground for studies of the performance of spark generators and spark plugs on the one hand and of the internal combustion engines on the other hand. While much of the data presented was obtained from various earlier publications, numerous places were found where necessary data were lacki… more
Date: 1925
Creator: Silsbee, F. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Accelerations in Flight

Description: Report discussung work on accelerometry was done at McCook Field for the purpose of continuing the work done by other investigators and obtaining the accelerations which occur when a high-speed pursuit airplane is subjected to the more common maneuvers. The accelerations obtained in suddenly pulling out of a dive with well-balanced elevators are shown to be within 3 or 4 per cent of the theoretically possible accelerations. The maximum acceleration which a pilot can withstand depends upon the l… more
Date: 1925
Creator: Doolittle, J. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Effect of Changes in Compression Ratio Upon Engine Performance

Description: "This report is based upon engine tests made at the Bureau of Standards during 1920, 1921, 1922, and 1923. The majority of these tests were of aviation engines and were made in the Altitude Laboratory. For a small portion of the work a single cylinder experimental engine was used. This, however, was operated only at sea-level pressures. The report shows that an increase in break horsepower and a decrease in the pounds of fuel used per brake horsepower hour usually results from an increase in co… more
Date: 1925
Creator: Sparrow, Stanwood W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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