. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sliding heads work at an angle of 45degrees, and the piece sheared can there-fore be mitred or cut to a bevel. This isnecessary on a great deal of work, andsuch a machine saves much time in fittingup. A sliding head worked vertically orhorizontally will not do this shearing toadvantage. There is a clamping tablein front of the knives for convenience inholding pieces to be sheared. tendent of motive power of the Delaware,Susquehanna & Schuylkill is a brief outline of how he grad-ually worked
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . sliding heads work at an angle of 45degrees, and the piece sheared can there-fore be mitred or cut to a bevel. This isnecessary on a great deal of work, andsuch a machine saves much time in fittingup. A sliding head worked vertically orhorizontally will not do this shearing toadvantage. There is a clamping tablein front of the knives for convenience inholding pieces to be sheared. tendent of motive power of the Delaware,Susquehanna & Schuylkill is a brief outline of how he grad-ually worked his way upwards: Born May 12, 1861, in NorthamptonCounty, Pa. Served a four-year appren-ticeship at the machinist trade, from theage of fourteen to eighteen. Engaged asa machinist one year with Bement, Miles& Co., Philadelphia, and one year withWm. Sellers & Co., Philadelphia; alsoseveral months in steam engine these two years in Philadelphia,he attended the Broad and Spring GardenInstitute (night-school) two evenings perweek; and the Artisan School, Broad and. A Recent Example of Self-Help. We frequently hear complaints made,that nowadays a mechanic has little op-portunity of rising above the position ofmere workman unless he has some in-fluential friends to push him along. Itmay be that influential friends are moreuseful in pushing mechanics upwardsthan they once were, but we believe thatthe principal force to effect this speciesof elevation will always remain in themechanic himself. The principle of self-help is as active to-day as it ever was; andit is those who are determined to do thebest for themselves who are likely toascend most rapidly towards the top ofthe ladder. These thoughts have recur-red to us recently on learning details oithe professional experience of Mr. JohnR. Wagner, recently appointed superin- Green streets, three evenings per Wm. Sellers & Co. in May, 1881, totake course in mechanical engineering atLehigh University, and in the in
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