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Tanks test of a model of the hull of the Navy PB-1 flying boat - N.A.C.A. Model 52

Description: A model of the hull of the Navy PB-1 flying boat was tested in the N.A.C.A. tank as part of a program intended to provide information regarding the water performance of hulls of flying boats of earlier design for which hydrodynamic data have heretofore been unavailable. Tests were made according to the general method over the range of practical loadings with the model both fixed in trim and free to trim. A free-to-trim test according to the specific method was also made for the design load and … more
Date: August 1936
Creator: Allison, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Friction of compression-ignition engines

Description: "The cost in mean effective pressure of generating air flow in the combustion chambers of single-cylinder compression-ignition engines was determined for the prechamber and the displaced-piston types of combustion chamber. For each type a wide range of air-flow quantities, speeds, and boost pressures was investigated. Supplementary tests were made to determine the effect of lubricating-oil temperature, cooling-water temperature, and compression ratio on the friction mean effective pressure of t… more
Date: August 1936
Creator: Moore, Charles S. & Collins, John H., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Full-scale wind-tunnel and flight tests of a Fairchild 22 airplane equipped with a Fowler flap

Description: "Full-scale wind-tunnel and flight tests were made of a Fairchild 22 airplane equipped with a Fowler flap to determine the effect of the flap on the performance and control characteristics of the airplane. In the wind-tunnel tests of the airplane with the horizontal tail surfaces removed, the flap was found to increase the maximum lift coefficient from 1.27 to 2.41. In the flight test, the flap was found to decrease the minimum speed from 58.8 to 44.4 miles per hour" (p. 1).
Date: August 1936
Creator: Dearborn, C. H. & Soulé, H. A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Charts for Calculating the Performance of Airplanes Having Constant-Speed Propellers

Description: "Charts are presented for determining the performance of airplanes having variable-pitch propellers, the pitch of which is assumed to be adjusted to maintain constant speed for all rates of flight. The charts are based on the general performance equations developed by Oswald in reference 1, and are used in a similar manner. Examples applying the charts to airplanes having both supercharged and unsupercharged engines are included" (p. 1).
Date: September 1936
Creator: White, Roland J. & Martin, Victor J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An Approximate Spin Design Criterion for Monoplanes

Description: "An approximate empirical criterion, based on the projected side area and the mass distribution of the airplane, was formulated. The British results were analyzed and applied to American designs. A simpler design criterion, based solely on the type and the dimensions of the tail, was developed; it is useful in a rapid estimation of whether a new design is likely to comply with the minimum requirements for safety in spinning" (p. 1).
Date: June 1936
Creator: Seidman, Oscar & Donlan, Charles J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Influence of Fuel-Oil Temperature on the Combustion in a Prechamber Compression-Ignition Engine

Description: Note presenting the influence of fuel-oil temperature on combustion as investigated by injecting the fuel into the prechamber of a single-cylinder, 4-stroke-cycle, water-cooled, compression-ignition engine operating at 1500 rpm and at a compression ratio of 13.5. The results showed that heating the fuel oil to 750 degrees Fahrenheit increased the injection period, changed the rate of injection, and eliminated the spray cone.
Date: April 1936
Creator: Gerrish, Harold C. & Ayer, Bruce E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geology and Mineral Resources of the Butler and Zelienople Quadrangles, Pennsylvania

Description: From abstract: This report is one of a series of publications on the geology and mineral resources of the Appalachian Plateaus. The areas described are the Butler and Zelienople quadrangles, which together include about 450 square miles in Butler, Beaver, and Lawrence Counties, western Pennsylvania.
Date: 1936
Creator: Richardson, G. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Rosebud Coal Field, Rosebud and Custer Counties, Montana

Description: From abstract: The Rosebud coal field, named from Rosebud Creek and the village of Rosebud, includes an area of about 1,050 square miles and forms a very small part of the subbituminous and lignite coal fields of eastern Montana and Wyoming and the western part of the Dakotas. It is an irregularly bounded tract lying south of the Yellowstone River in eastern Rosebud County and western Custer County and measures 50 miles from east to west and 28 miles from north to south. It adjoins the Forsyth … more
Date: 1936
Creator: Pierce, William Gamewell
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Richey-Lambert Coal Field, Richland and Dawson Counties, Montana

Description: From abstract: The Richey-Lambert coal field is an area of about 900 square miles in Richland and Dawson Counties, eastern Montana, along the divide between the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers. In this region only flat-lying continental rocks occur near the surface. About 300 feet of the Lebo shale member and about 930 feet of the coal-bearing Tongue River member of the Fort Union formation, of Eocene age, are exposed in the area. Deposits of terrace gravel at two levels in the field are tentat… more
Date: 1936
Creator: Parker, Frank S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Phosphate Rock Near Maxville, Philipsburg, and Avon, Montana

Description: From abstract: This paper gives the results of a resurvey of certain areas in Montana to which renewed interest has been directed by the development recently of a market for crude phosphate rock in British Columbia, nearby.
Date: 1936
Creator: Pardee, J. T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mineral industry of Alaska in 1934

Description: From Introduction: "The value of its mineral resources has long been recognized as a matter of concern in the welfare of every nation, and all wise governments almost from time immemorial have taken steps to find out about, utilize, and safeguard such of these natural resources as lie within their own boundaries or to acquire rights in those they need that lie outside those boundaries. Obviously one of these lines concerns itself with the record of present performance-how much of the different … more
Date: 1936
Creator: Smith, Philip S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geology of the Monument Valley-Navajo Mountain Region, San Juan County, Utah

Description: From abstract: The Monument Valley-Navajo Mountain region is part of the Colorado Plateau and includes about 1,100 square miles in San Juan County, southeastern Utah, lying between the San Juan and Colorado Rivers on the north and the Utah-Arizona State line on the south. Included in the region are Navajo Mountain, the Rainbow Natural Bridge, and a part of the picturesque Monument Valley.
Date: 1936
Creator: Baker, Arthur A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Mineral Deposits of the Ruby-Kuskokwim Region Alaska

Description: From Abstract: "The following report is essentially a description of the mineral deposits that have been found in this region and of the status of mining in 1933."
Date: 1936
Creator: Mertie, John Beaver, Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geology of the Coastal Plain of South Carolina

Description: From abstract: The Coastal Plain of South Carolina extends from the Atlantic Ocean inland a distance ranging from 120 to 150 miles to the Fall Line, where it adjoins the Piedmont province. It includes an area of more than 20,000 square miles, or nearly two-thirds of the State, whose total area is 30,981 square miles, of which 494 square miles is water. The geographic divisions of the Coastal Plain are the marine coastal terraces, or "low country", which stand less than 270 feet above sea level,… more
Date: 1936
Creator: Cooke, C. Wythe
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Flora of the New Albany Shale: Part 1. Diichnia Kentuckiensis, a New Representative of the Calamopityeae

Description: Abstract: A new genus of the Cycadofilicales, Diichnia, is described from the New Albany shale, of late Devonian age, in central Kentucky. The one known species, which is based on stem material showing internal structure, belongs in the family Calamopityeae. Foundation for the generic segregation is seen in the double leaf truce of the genotype, D. kentuckiensis, in contrast with the originally single trace in other known representatives of the family.
Date: 1936
Creator: Read, Charles B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Geomorphology of the North Flank of the Uinta Mountains

Description: From introduction: The geologic record of the Tertiary period in the Green River Basin of southwestern Wyoming consists, in a broad way, of two quite different parts. The history of the first part, lasting through the Eocene epoch and perhaps on into the early Oligocene, was recorded in a thick series of sedimentary rocks of fluviatile and lacustrine origin. The history of the second part was recorded chiefly by successive stages of stream planation and stream trenching, but also in part by flu… more
Date: 1936
Creator: Bradley, Wilmot H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Microscopic Structure and Concentratability of the Important Iron Ores of the United States

Description: Outline of Problem: "This paper covers a survey of 19 ores collected from seven of the more important iron-ore districts of the United States and is a contribution by the ore-dressing section of the United States Bureau of Mines to general research program on iron and steel being conducted by the Bureau."
Date: 1936
Creator: Cooke, S. R. B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Concentration of Copper Ores in North America

Description: From Introduction: "This bulletin summarizes and discusses copper-concentrator methods, results, and costs from 1929 to 1931 and includes an account of trends and developments in the industry."
Date: 1936
Creator: Chapman, Thomas G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Contributions to the Data on Theoretical Metallurgy: [Part] 5. Heats of Fusion of Inorganic Substances

Description: From Introduction: "Examples of the use of the derived heat-of-fusion values in the application of thermodynamics to problems concerning metallurgical practice are not given here, but the reader is referred to the textbook of Lewis and Randall (454), in which the methods and types of calculations are adequately portrayed, and to the papers of Maier (469, 470, 471), in which the application of thermodynamic methods to various problems of metallurgical interest has been illustrated and discussed." more
Date: 1936
Creator: Kelley, K. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Contributions to the Data on Theoretical Metallurgy: [Part] 6. A Revision of the Entropies of Inorganic Substances--1935

Description: From Introduction: "Moreover, a critical study of the existing vapor-pressure data made by the author (98) furnishes entropy of vaporization results suitable for obtaining approximate values of the entropies of a number of gases from the entropies of the solids or liquids. Consequently, it appears worth while at the present time to supplement the former publication, giving the new values now obtainable and making such revision in the older values as the data warrant."
Date: 1936
Creator: Kelley, K. K.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Coal-Mine Accidents in the United States, 1934

Description: Report compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Mines including statistics on fatal and non-fatal accidents in coal mines located in the United States as well as data regarding the various operations (e.g., number of miners employed and average production). The information is organized into tables for comparison and the text draws some overall conclusions in the summary.
Date: 1936
Creator: Adams, W. W.; Geyer, L. E. & Parry, M. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Metal-Mine Accidents in the United States During the Calendar Years: 1933-34

Description: Report issued by the U.S. Bureau of Mines covering accidents that happened in metal mines located in the United States including statistics for injuries, fatalities, kinds and causes of accidents, and operational data, such as number of mine workers and shifts worked.
Date: 1936
Creator: Adams, William W. & Kolhos, M. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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