New Britain herald., 1930-12-19
was made by Roger c. Williams in
speed Records

by W. j. Fleming in March when r. flew his thrte-anE,ned transport with 3 1.tay MIo-ram load at the .ate Of l4-.f5 mlas per hour. [u September, noWov.r he was out 1oua hy Leroy Manning and Carl Wauzel III their Ford transport with .ne same load when they reached 'nA4& miles per hour. The Curtis cup race was won by Capt, Arthur t. Page. L. 5. lI C.
 Altitude records went mp. Lieu. Apollo Souryk wont higher than man crer went before when he reacted 4a aluuda Of 45,166 feet. If1 also s.c u LeN maximum altj- Gda -or ~cau@ues at 59,I40 feet, Uut r1s- MS not enough beyond hls rr-uoas u.t.-uIa to set a new Of r.aI record. A record for sca. r-.-as carrying l.uea kilograms, u..s z.- ay Capt. Boris Sorgievslly, ..o .ea-.aG ->.."a feet The Wo- :.-a'- .--i.aG- record Was reached .. --+-> <-et by the $ year old I...r Sr-'.. Tne attitude record .ar fa".s rN.nr in combat forma- .:oa was established by 1a |, <. ."t planes at 5e,@QJ feet.
 raa or Inc TWO great new air. sims uaz pat into service by Great H.a. The first. B-1Qa made ~. -.ss-al round trip flight 10 Can ..a. auI s.- a speed mark for dir .-..lss a- el.5 miles per hour, Dis 4,..r overlook her sister ship, the s.-.sf completed in 1929, on the ITS. [a- ol 4 flight toward India. collision and ire totally destroying F.. ship and killing most Of her o.uc.rs. ere" aEd official passen- -g.-.
 -.e largest wind tunnel in the world and d. covered artificial lake a.ary half mile long to serve as =.ap.aae testing basin, were con- -.ruer~d at the Langley Memorial A.rona9:oal laboratory of the na- tfo.I advisory committee on aero nu,ics.
 whvre were noteworthy develop r....s in other technical and en- -fra.r.r= fields. Cne ot the high Ea0.s ves tAa successful launching, arer two failures ot great tube for obtaining power from seu-Wu-or, at t,atanza5. Cuba. George Claude, the French eu4.neer-inVentOr who de- ..-ouy3 the scheme, expects to eN- .ot tho difference in temperature between surface and deep water for +u. generation Of steam at less than atmospheric pressure.
 Tho nav Ne.aui canal which ~f- carry giant cargo vessels ID and down the 3-t.5 feet difference il l.gal between Lakes Erie and On tarao in a distance O. only -5 miles. ~4s completed.
 A radio telephone sogss.e Was in- stalled between New York and Bu-nos Ai.as.
 [. ;. army ordinance officers ar- ao.ue-4 t-- development o- a ae" Held -.a l.oa-t. enabling 75-nlE--i- M..r .anaou to be trained on any no-rr n 4 uoah,.t1 circle and e.e- z4t.l o any angle ur 10 t1a Ver-I- ... This type Of nOuu- promises -8 he .s a.olgfi0aar~ Us Fas t-@ famous -5-mU1ug.-r French gun.
 .u-.a-.cs and iov.a.ors will no longer lo -ha only persons pro- -....4 hs patents or ta,r aesv pro 5..r.oas. A u-,e patent law In t1a I-r.ed Stats p,rn5rs plant breeders fla aEa ont patents on any rlan-s -... or-.uat, that can be proDa- -.-.5 ax as-.aal aear=; the only .>.auuoas Ie plants Iropa=ate4 by t..rs LE- uora-o-s.
 Ancient Culture
 G1r--0.z old cultures O. Baby la..a a.I Iala~..aa al. E-EHt #aE- ,a.ae1 new stories C. ~Ilaaaor to t.. inquiries ot araLaac.ogis-s dur
 At ur. where Abraham came from. and ac E.-. is gr-at rI"-- .,-y-s.r-aom ln early d#gs. azret'- .ro.- from America and England found royal a.ra'- and other relics a. d go-aaa elt.UHuou t-a' Mas Lr- ban and sophisticated when Gfle"" and Home were still populated with sIlag.rs or Daraarlau~.
 H,u.ata tna-a We're strata Ct earth tearing e<-Eal-.S Of earlier c-FlHZa- -..r-. --.l a- g. high l,reL ot culture. And rf-n significant was t"'-E l.r.~ O. E-a-el-va-.eI mud. His was inc auwr.~er record Of 2 mighty u9nla'.oa io ".- T.-r4s-i-1- pilates raLI.y anoat @a"7 l.. C- - uo-Haty +He -r.a, flood ol Inc D.u-aal e4roml"...
 IH .le otH.r -r.4t land of early .sauga. Eeyp-. 4iscoyerIes Ot equal .....ae- --.ea u=4a. At NeEaum, lu -n..sl site or a great CLougl not .. --.-.-s.J pyramid, a-caaeolos.s.s ouul n a stone tomb structure d -r4- mass ot Durais. mostly o1 per- .oaa Of aoafa birth. dating from later GeEr.u.H inns. when h. PtOlemlca ..u3 Uu inc %llr.
 Ia J'1.stiuy excavations have been .tn-t.- Iau facts about Bible hi-- .gr- to .-.-. 0ua mound. Tell B"]t ,rarau. 51 Js4aa. yielded relics dat- ing from -aau 10 5s7 B. C., q rec orI Of more taau a thousand years y4 l---aE. -'t-.-.-.- lt Ci-I Sty-.
 In America, aNoaEators continued to dig ou- naE spiandors Of the Maya tn N3ostan and taa Aztec, Toi- tec and 4ssoeia'el peoples in Me1l- 70 proper. Six pyramids in a TO" ~-re un1arr-.l at Ia. aaeLe1- Toltec ay o- T"or-auacan by Mexican ar.uaeo.oai=-s. An Aztec ball court Was found in another part ot the southern rap.3IIn.
 In the soutl"estlrn United States. evidence Of a workable Indian Pom poti. buried under black volcanic ash more than l-4n years ago, was dis covered near Flagstaff. ArLz. Of ap- proN5mately the sane date is an elaborate system Of irrigation canals. whose remains were traced by an eG- petition using ajrplauas.