Search Results

[BAB-O cans window display]

Description: Photograph of a window displaying stacked BAB-O cans, advertised on WBAP-TV Channel 5. The display includes a sign that reads "BAB-O the Grease Dissolving Cleaner invites you to see! The Kate Smith Evening Hour, 7:00 p.m. Wednesdays over WBAP-TV-Channel 5 Star Telegram Station."
Date: December 10, 1952
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Parkdale Power Plant]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 10, 1952
Duration: 1 minute 04 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: Puppy dogs]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 10, 1952
Duration: 46 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
open access

Thermal Spikes and Uranium Instability

Description: Thermal spikes occurring during the life of a slug in a pile cause a momentary destruction of the original configuration of atoms in the metal. This process occurs at such a rate that in a thermal neutron flux of 10(13) neutrons per square centimeter per second each atom in the metal will be subject to temperatures above the melting point of uranium every 40 minutes.
Date: December 10, 1952
Creator: Last, G. A. & McLachlan, D., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Investigation of Spinning and Tumbling Characteristics of a 1/20-Scale Model of the Consolidated Vultee XFY-1 Airplane in the Free-Spinning Tunnel, TED No. NACA DE 370

Description: "An investigation has been conducted in the Langley 20-foot free-spinning tunnel on a 1/20-scale model of the Consolidated Vultee XFY-1 airplane with a windmilling propeller simulated to determine the effects of control setting and movements upon the erect spin and recovery characteristics for a range of airplane-loading conditions. The effects on the model's spin-recovery characteristics of removing the lower vertical tail, removing the gun pods, and fixing the rudders at neutral were also inv… more
Date: December 10, 1952
Creator: Lee, Henry A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Flight Test of a Radial-Burning Solid-Fuel Ram Jet

Description: Report presenting an investigation of a rocket-launched ram-jet engine with radial-burning solid fuel. Results regarding acceleration, altitude, durability of the fuel, net and gross thrust coefficients, and overall fuel specific impulse are provided.
Date: December 10, 1952
Creator: Bartlett, Walter A., Jr. & Dettwyler, H. Rudolph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
captions transcript

[News Clip: Gyro Skid-Control]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 10, 1952
Duration: 1 minute 26 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
Back to Top of Screen