Comments on: Ancient Seer of Modern Marvels (Aug, 1941)

By: Jari

Jari — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:40:10 +0000

Wayne: Partially correct, except Hans von Ohain developed his (=German) jet engine being unaware of Whittle’s work. The history of the jet engines and gas turbines goes further back: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.....jet_engine and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_turbine#History

By: Wayne

Wayne — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 10:02:24 +0000

Re: Comments by Jan Bout
“engines for multiplying and enforcing the winds to set also on divers motions” is a jet engine, not known in 1941 in America, found by the Germans 1939;

If unknown in America in 1941 then why did General Electric start their gas turbine division in 1918?

The jet engine “found” by the Germans in 1939 was probably built by Sir Frank Whittle, a Brit, who patented the design for a gas turbine for jet propulsion 1930. The first successful use of his engine was in April 1937.

By: Jan Bout

Jan Bout — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:57:52 +0000

“engines for multiplying and enforcing the winds to set also on divers motions” is a jet engine, not known in 1941 in America, found by the Germans 1939

By: Rick Auricchio

Rick Auricchio — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:11:41 +0000

Did he predict bacon?

By: jayessell

jayessell — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:24:10 +0000

He predicted Star Trek’s Holodeck!

Smells have been broadcasted.
It works on the ‘Scratch and Sniff’ principle, except they’re heated electrically.
(You think ink is expensive!)

There have been experimental movies with smell tracks, but synchronizing the odor to the film and changing from one odor to a different one was a problem.

A first hand report of “Scent of Mystery’ at http://www.imdb.com said the process worked!