A THIRTEEN-TON MAXIM SILENCER.
A Maxim silencer, weighing 26,000 pounds, seven feet in diameter and 20 feet long has been built for a Diesel engine used by the , Tucson Light and Power Company. The first Maxim silencer built was used on the end of a gun barrel and weighed about six The Diesel engine, which has an exhaust pipe thirty-two inches in diameter, could be heard for fourteen miles; with the silencer it can be heard scarcely two blocks. . . Without silencers euch as this life would be scarcely endurable. The automobile muffler is a device of this same general nature, and we all know the rivet hammer sounds that come from a car with a cut-out. We have come a long way in noise abatement when a thirteenton structure is attached to a Diesel engine for no other purpose, but much useful study can still be put on this subject with profit.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 7 (Supplement)
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152A THIRTEEN-TON MAXIM SILENCER. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 134, 8 June 1929, Page 7 (Supplement)
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