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[Supplement A - Third Quarterly Conference, St. Paul's Church] (open access)

[Supplement A - Third Quarterly Conference, St. Paul's Church]

A three-page handwritten document reporting on numerous issues pertaining to St. Paul's Church for the Third Quarterly Conference.
Date: August 30, 1920
Creator: Hunt, James Winford
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Supplement B - Educational Report] (open access)

[Supplement B - Educational Report]

A handwritten document containing an educational report for the members of St. Paul's Church. Of note is a report on early plans and fundraising for a Methodist college in Abilene. That college would become McMurry College (now McMurry University).
Date: August 30, 1920
Creator: Hunt, James Winford
System: The Portal to Texas History
A Preliminary Investigation of Supercharging an Air-Cooled Engine in Flight (open access)

A Preliminary Investigation of Supercharging an Air-Cooled Engine in Flight

"This report presents the results of preliminary tests made on the effects of supercharging an air-cooled engine under airplane flight conditions. Service training airplanes were used in the investigation equipped with production types of Wright J engines. A N.A.C.A. Roots type supercharger was driven from the rear of the engine. In addition to measuring those quantities that would enable the determination of the climb performance, measurements were made of the cylinder-head temperatures and the carburetor pressures and temperatures" (p. 83).
Date: July 30, 1927
Creator: Ware, Marsden & Schey, Oscar W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Measurement of Maximum Cylinder Pressures (open access)

The Measurement of Maximum Cylinder Pressures

"The work presented in this report was undertaken at the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics to determine a suitable method for measuring the maximum pressures occurring in aircraft engine cylinders. The study and development of instruments for the measurement of maximum cylinder pressures has been conducted in connection with carburetor and oil engine investigations on a single cylinder aircraft-type engine. Five maximum cylinder-pressure devices have been designed, and tested, in addition to the testing of three commercial indicators" (p. 311).
Date: March 30, 1928
Creator: Hicks, Chester W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revision of the American Lemming Mice (Genus Synaptomys) (open access)

Revision of the American Lemming Mice (Genus Synaptomys)

Brief summary of the geographic distribution, habits, history, and subgenera of Synaptomys.
Date: June 30, 1927
Creator: Howell, A. Brazier
System: The UNT Digital Library