. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . - with actual locomotives; also byProfessor Lanza, of the Boston Institute ofTechnology, with models. The resultsobtained from all these experiments con-firm the deductions made by Le Chatelier,a very full description of whose experi-ments is published in D. K. Clarks Rail-way Machinery. Considering that it isforty-two years since Le Chateliers experi-ments were made public in the Englishlanguage in Clarks book, and that practi-calh nothing new concerning the princi-ples involved has been brought out sin
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . - with actual locomotives; also byProfessor Lanza, of the Boston Institute ofTechnology, with models. The resultsobtained from all these experiments con-firm the deductions made by Le Chatelier,a very full description of whose experi-ments is published in D. K. Clarks Rail-way Machinery. Considering that it isforty-two years since Le Chateliers experi-ments were made public in the Englishlanguage in Clarks book, and that practi-calh nothing new concerning the princi-ples involved has been brought out sincethen, it would seem that your committeewere dabbling in ancient historj- to referto the subject at this Went it Alone—^Wisconsin Central Engine that Backed Up into a Yard40 Miles an Hour Without Engineer or Fireman. card which would give the exact ainountof lateral and fore-and-aft were made with no counter-weights at all, and with different amounts,ranging from enough to balance the re-volving weights only, up to more thanenough to fully counterbalance the wholeof the reciprocating weights; these wererepeated for speeds varying from ten tothirty-five miles per hour, and it was foundthat without any counterweights at all inthe wheels, the movement was about ^s ofan inch laterally and fore-and-aft; whenbalance weights were applied suSicient tocounterbalance all the revolving weightsand 42 per cent of the reciprocatingweights, the movement was reduced toj5 of an inch, and when the weight wasincreased so as to provide counterbalancefor all the reciprocating parts, the lateraland fore-and-aft movement ceased, but thevertical or up and down movement wasincreased mat
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