Lioré-Olivier LeO 194 Seaplane (open access)

Lioré-Olivier LeO 194 Seaplane

Report presenting a description of the Lioré-Olivier LeO 194 seaplane and a particular series of flights made over several months. Its fuselage is made entirely of wood. It has 6 gasoline tanks each with a capacity of 255 liters. It is a single engine biplane with wings mounted above the body of the seaplane.
Date: April 1927
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Transformation of Heat in an Engine (open access)

The Transformation of Heat in an Engine

This report presents a thermodynamic basis for rating heat engines. The production of work by a heat engine rests on the operation of supplying heat, under favorable conditions, to a working fluid and then taking it away.
Date: April 1929
Creator: Neumann, Kurt
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Westland Iv Commercial Monoplane (British): Three "Cirrus III" Engine (open access)

The Westland Iv Commercial Monoplane (British): Three "Cirrus III" Engine

Circular presenting a description of the Westland IV, which is a high-wing monoplane with strut bracing, two outboard engines, a fairly large fuselage that provides comfortable cabin accommodation, and wide-track landing gear. Details of the design, flight characteristics, blueprints, and photographs are provided.
Date: April 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Blackburn "Bluebird" Mark IV (British): All-Metal Biplane (open access)

The Blackburn "Bluebird" Mark IV (British): All-Metal Biplane

Circular presenting a description of the Blackburn Bluebird Mark IV, which is an all-metal airplane. Details are provided regarding constructional features, the cockpit, the gasoline system, and the flight characteristics.
Date: April 1929
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some New Tests at the Gottingen Laboratory (open access)

Some New Tests at the Gottingen Laboratory

The tests at the Gottingen laboratory included: friction tests on a surface treated with emaillite, verification tests on the M.V.A. 356 wing, and comparative tests of wing no. 36 at the Eiffel laboratory. The examination of all these experiments leads to the belief that, at large incidences, the speeds registered by the suction manometer of the testing chamber of the Eiffel laboratory wind tunnel are, owing to pressure drop, greater than the actual speeds. Therefore, the values of k(sub x) and k(sub y) measured at the Eiffel laboratory at large incidences are too low.
Date: April 1921
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Motion of Spheres in Still Fluids (open access)

Motion of Spheres in Still Fluids

"The behavior of a liquid or gaseous medium, in which a solid body can move freely under the action of a force of constant magnitude and direction, is yet little known. Only in connection with a few special problems, which belong in this field, have experiments been tried and these chiefly concern technically important cases. The behavior of the simplest shaped bodies has as yet been scarcely investigated at all" (p. 1).
Date: April 1924
Creator: Hirsch, P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contribution to the Systematic Investigation on Joukowsky Profiles (open access)

Contribution to the Systematic Investigation on Joukowsky Profiles

"This article resulted from the need of showing, in a simple way, how the aerodynamic properties of airfoils are affected by the shape of their profiles. No general solution of this problem could be found, since the profile shapes cannot ordinarily be expressed by simple mathematical formulas. This advantage is possessed only by the Joukowsky profiles and this discussion of the problem is therefore limited to them" (p. 1).
Date: April 1928
Creator: Loew, Gottfried
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kinetographic Determination of Airplane Flight Characteristics (open access)

Kinetographic Determination of Airplane Flight Characteristics

The author's first experiments with a glider on flight characteristics demonstrated that an accurate flight-path measurement would enable determination of the polar diagram from a gliding flight. Since then he has endeavored to obtain accurate flight measurements by means of kinetograph (motion-picture camera). Different methods of accomplishing this are presented.
Date: April 1927
Creator: Raethjen, P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Performance of B. M. W. 185-horsepower airplane engine (open access)

Performance of B. M. W. 185-horsepower airplane engine

Report discusses the results of testing on a B.M.W. engine in an altitude chamber where temperature and pressure can be controlled to simulate flight at various altitudes. Results for various engine speeds, altitudes, and propeller speeds are provided.
Date: April 13, 1922
Creator: Sparrow, Stanwood Willston
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Pander Light Biplane: A School Two-Seater With 45 HP Anzani Engine (open access)

The Pander Light Biplane: A School Two-Seater With 45 HP Anzani Engine

Report presenting a description of the Pander light biplane, including a description of the construction and flying characteristics are provided.
Date: April 1926
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Francois Villiers Marine Pursuit Airplane (open access)

The Francois Villiers Marine Pursuit Airplane

A traditional biplane design allows this craft to function with the speed and maneuverability necessary to perform as a pursuit aircraft while also being able to land on water. It featured retractable landing gear for water landings. It was powered with a 450 HP. Lorraine-Dietrich engine.
Date: April 1927
Creator: Serryer, J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recovery of Gasoline From Uncondensed Still Vapors (open access)

Recovery of Gasoline From Uncondensed Still Vapors

Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines on the possibilities of increasing fuel production from crude oil. Methods of recovering oil that is lost by remaining uncondensed are presented. This report includes tables, graphs, and illustrations.
Date: April 1922
Creator: Dow, Donald B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preparation of peaches for market. (open access)

Preparation of peaches for market.

Discusses the losses caused by improper packing of peaches for the market. Provides descriptions of how peaches are to be picked, packaged, and made ready to be sold.
Date: April 1922
Creator: Samson, H. W. (Harold Willis), 1888-1927
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
How to Get Rid of Rats. (open access)

How to Get Rid of Rats.

Describes methods of eliminating a rat infestation in terms of food sources, poisons, trapping, and rat proofing. Also describes the natural enemies and diseases of rats, and the benefits of community cooperation in their control.
Date: April 1923
Creator: Silver, James, b. 1890
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cranberry harvesting and handling. (open access)

Cranberry harvesting and handling.

Recommends methods of harvesting, handling, storing, and packing cranberries in preparation for market. Discusses the function of cooperative cranberry organizations in relation to sales and prices.
Date: April 1924
Creator: Franklin, Henry J. (Henry James), 1883-1958; Darrow, George M. (George McMillan), 1889- & Malde, O. G. (Ole Gustav), 1880-
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Manganese Situation from a Domestic Standpoint (open access)

The Manganese Situation from a Domestic Standpoint

From page 1: The purpose of this circular is to show the degree of dependence of the United States upon foreign sources for the manganese required by its industries.
Date: April 1927
Creator: Furness, J. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bottle-Holder. (open access)

Bottle-Holder.

Patent for an ink bottle holder that allows for sturdy tilting and prevents ink from spilling.
Date: April 27, 1920
Creator: Smith, Edwin Ruthven
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopping Machine (open access)

Cotton-Chopping Machine

Patent for a cotton "wheeled cultivator" (line 14-15) attachment which allows users to make adjustments to the cultivator blades, including illustrations.
Date: April 13, 1920
Creator: Sims, James G.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Gas-Release Packer. (open access)

Automatic Gas-Release Packer.

Patent for automatic gas release packer that uses constant pressure regulated by spring-controlled valves for better control when lifting oil out of wells.
Date: April 11, 1922
Creator: Cummings, William J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Combined Adding and Listing Machine. (open access)

Combined Adding and Listing Machine.

Patent for new improvements on combined adding and listing machines simplifying and economizing construction and facilitating, "rapidity of operation" (lines14-15). Improvements include: "causing the keys to act directly as stops for the adding wheel section; to provide novel accumulator mechanism...[with] a novel actuator; to provide a novel construction or sector-control bar; to provide a novel key-bar for operating...; to provide novel means for restoring the accumulator to normal; to provide stop mechanism to permit the carryovers of the accumulator...;to provide novel means for restoring the sectors to normal; to provide improved means for holding the accumulator in operative or inoperative position...; to provide novel means for connecting the accumulator sectors with the type sectors; 5o provide novel means for connecting the accumulator sectors with the type sectors; to provide novel means for actuating the hammer and paper feed mechanism; to provide improved general-error key mechanism; to provide an improved construction and operation of key-bar and sector-control bar; to permit of the operation of elimination" (lines 15-46).
Date: April 20, 1920
Creator: McCaleb, Walter F.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bottle-Filling Device. (open access)

Bottle-Filling Device.

Patent for filling bottles with "two liquids and introducing them into the bottle at the same time under pressure" (lines 17-18), specifically for "carbonated beverages" (lines 12-13).
Date: April 6, 1920
Creator: Dannelley, Dillon C.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Survey of Gravities of Domestic Crudes (open access)

Survey of Gravities of Domestic Crudes

Report on the comparative gravities of oil extracted from different regions of the United States.
Date: April 1929
Creator: Hopkins, G. R. & Coons, A. B.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aeromechanical Experimentation (Wind Tunnel Tests) (open access)

Aeromechanical Experimentation (Wind Tunnel Tests)

The following report endeavors to show that aeromechanical experimentation has become an important aid to theory. Experiments can be tried with separate parts of airplanes or with models of whole airplanes, with propellers, and with anything else that comes into contact with moving air.
Date: April 1929
Creator: Katzmayr, R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fatigue of Internal Combustion Engines (open access)

Fatigue of Internal Combustion Engines

Engine conditions such as pressure characteristics, temperatures, and mechanical fatigue enable the employment of a criterion of general fatigue which simultaneously takes account of both mechanical and thermal conditions, for the sake of comparing any projected engine with engines of the same type already in use.
Date: April 1924
Creator: Dumanois, P.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library