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''Life on Other Worlds'' an editorial by Hugo Gernsback appears in Science and Invention magazine. Cover story appears about rockets and article about Robert Goddard in French Magazine "Science et La Vie" Image:science et la vie Jan 1922.JPG

Science and Invention magazine features rocket back pack on cover. Image:SI 1922-02.jpg 300px

Completion of a 50-hour test of the Lawrence J-1, 200-hp radial air-cooled engine, by the Aeronautical Engine Laboratory, Washington Navy Yard, foreshadowed the successful use of radial engines in naval aircraft.

Navy's first aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Langley, was commissioned at Norfolk, Va., a converted collier, ''Jupiter''.

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics NACA Report No. 150 on "Jet Propulsion for Airplanes," by Edgar Buckingham of the Bureau of Standards, pointed out that jet fuel consumption would be four times that of propeller engine at 250 mph, but that efficiency of jet increased at higher speeds.

Stout ST-1 successfully test flown by Eddie Stinson, first all-metal airplane designed for the Navy.

First use of helium in a free balloon in Navy balloon flown by Lt. Comdr. J. P. Norfleet in National Elimination Balloon Race at Milwaukee, which did not place in the race.

Guglielmo Marconi of Italy stated that an apparatus could be designed to transmit radio waves from one ship in any desired direction and pick up reflections from another ship in a receiver, a device which would "thereby Immediately reveal the presence and bearing of the other ship in fog or thick weather." Christian Huelsmeyer of Germany received a patent in 1904 on boat equipment which used ...

Capt. A. W. Stevens (USAS) made record parachute jump from 24,200 from a supercharged Martin bomber over McCook Field. Smithsonian Institution scientists utilized Navy seaplanes in mollusk research In Florida waters, completing in days what would otherwise have required a year.

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