Atmospheric Waves and Their Utilization in Soaring Flight (open access)

Atmospheric Waves and Their Utilization in Soaring Flight

In soaring flight, ascending air currents are utilized and the interesting question is raised whether there are such currents which extend to any considerable distance and which can be utilized practically.
Date: March 1923
Creator: Baldit, M. Albert
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evolution of the Helicopter (open access)

Evolution of the Helicopter

Report presenting an investigation of problems related to helicopters. Also included are the history of the evolution of the helicopter and a series of propeller experiments.
Date: March 1923
Creator: Balaban, Karl
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seaplanes for Commerce (open access)

Seaplanes for Commerce

The advantages of using seaplanes for commercial purposes is discussed. The three primary advantages described include their superior speeds over existing means of transport on the same routes, the available landing fields when flying over the water, and the reduction of distance from the airport to the city is serves due to the seaplane's ability to land in water.
Date: March 1923
Creator: Warner, Edward P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
New Albatross Commercial Airplane "L 58" (open access)

New Albatross Commercial Airplane "L 58"

The "L 58" is a monoplane with cantilever wings joined directly to the fuselage. It accordingly belongs to the new school of airplane construction, as founded and developed in Germany. A list of performance characteristics is included.
Date: March 1923
Creator: Meyer, G.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Notes on Aerodynamic Forces on Airship Hulls (open access)

Notes on Aerodynamic Forces on Airship Hulls

"For a first approximation the air flow around the airship hull is assumed to obey the laws of perfect (i.e. free from viscosity) incompressible fluid. The flow is further assumed to be free from vortices (or rotational motion of the fluid). These assumptions lead to very great simplifications of the formulae used but necessarily imply an imperfect picture of the actual conditions. The value of the results depends therefore upon the magnitude of the forces produced by the disturbances in the flow caused by viscosity with the consequent production of vortices in the fluid" (p. 1).
Date: March 1923
Creator: Tuckerman, L. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Variation in the Number of Revolutions of Air Propellers (open access)

Variation in the Number of Revolutions of Air Propellers

Note describing the variation in the number of revolutions per minute and provides simple formulas that allow for advanced calculation to be made of the variation of propeller speed with variation of one or more dimensions of the propeller and allow the necessary corrections to be applied.
Date: March 1923
Creator: Achenbach, W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Increase in Dimensions of Airplanes - Weight, Area, and Loading of Wings (open access)

The Increase in Dimensions of Airplanes - Weight, Area, and Loading of Wings

Note presenting an investigation of the increase in the dimensions of airplanes, including the weight, area, and loading of wings, and how increasing the size of different components may affect these aerodynamic factors.
Date: March 1923
Creator: Everling, E.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disturbing Effect of Free Hydrogen on Fuel Combustion in Internal Combustion Engines (open access)

Disturbing Effect of Free Hydrogen on Fuel Combustion in Internal Combustion Engines

"Experiments with fuel mixtures of varying composition, have recently been conducted by the Motor Vehicle and Airplane Engine Testing Laboratories of the Royal Technical High School in Berlin and at Fort Hahneberg, as well as at numerous private engine works. The behavior of hydrogen during combustion in engines and its harmful effect under certain conditions, on the combustion in the engine cylinder are of general interest. Some of the results of these experiments are given here, in order to elucidate the main facts and explain much that is already a matter of experience with chauffeurs and pilots" (p. 1).
Date: March 1923
Creator: Riedler, A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Standardization and Aerodynamics (open access)

Standardization and Aerodynamics

Report presenting suggestions for the standardization of the study of aerodynamics in laboratories in the United States and Europe. A report by each of the different scientists, all of whom are working in a variety of different labs and countries, is provided, and each discusses the progress made in their respective labs and their suggestions for standardization and progress in the field.
Date: March 1923
Creator: Knight, William; Prandtl, L.; von Karman; Costanzi, G.; Margoulis, W.; Verduzio, R. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Motor trucks on Corn-Belt farms. (open access)

Motor trucks on Corn-Belt farms.

Describes the benefits of using motor trucks on farms in the Corn Belt, based on a survey of farmers in that region who own trucks. Discusses profitability, efficiency, and compares the use of trucks to the use of horses.
Date: March 1923
Creator: Tolley, H. R. (Howard Ross), 1889-1958 & Church, L. M. (Lillian M.), 1872-1939
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Citrus Industry in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas (open access)

The Citrus Industry in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas

This bulletin is presented for the primary purpose of aiding the citrus industry in the Lower Rio Grande Valley and by a statement of authentic facts to apprise the public of the magnitude and possibilities of this rapidly developing industry.
Date: 1923-03-01/1923-04-30
Creator: Del Cutro, J. M.; Halstead, E. W. & Halstead, H. F.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sheet-Placing Machine. (open access)

Sheet-Placing Machine.

Patent for improvements in sheet-placing machines for pushing and pulling devices to their correct orientation of oil tanks (lines 10-13) roof construction without the possibility of injury to mechanics.
Date: March 13, 1923
Creator: Brock, Verita Belle
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History