IN VACUUM TUBES
FUTURE OF PLANE TRAVEL
Recd. 6 p.m. London, Nov. 18. The Nobel prize-winner Dr. Irving Langmuir, director-general of the General Electric Research Laboratories, declared that there was no reason why planes could not travel at 2000 or even 5000 miles an hour in vacuum tubes. He explained that such tubes could be constructed from New York to San Francisco in which airtight vehicles suspended magnetically would move from coast to coast in one hour.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 87, Issue 275, 20 November 1943, Page 5
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