. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ult will be generally satis-factory, or if otherwise it might be saidof the mechanic observing these instruc-tions as was said of the western en-gineer who earned the trite epitaph—He did his damnedest, angels can dono more. J.^mes Kennedy. Xezv York. Patent Office Department. The United States Patent Office is oneof the most remarkable institutions inthe world. In no country has mechan-ical invention been so warmly encouragedas it has been among the people of thisland of ours. Governmental s
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ult will be generally satis-factory, or if otherwise it might be saidof the mechanic observing these instruc-tions as was said of the western en-gineer who earned the trite epitaph—He did his damnedest, angels can dono more. J.^mes Kennedy. Xezv York. Patent Office Department. The United States Patent Office is oneof the most remarkable institutions inthe world. In no country has mechan-ical invention been so warmly encouragedas it has been among the people of thisland of ours. Governmental supervisionhas been, on the whole, eminently satis-factory, and it is a marvelous sight toexamine, however briefly, the models onexhibition in the Patent Office at Wash-ington. In no other department of hu-man endeavor does the mercurial in-genuity of the human mind appear insuch concrete multiform expression, andin no form does it appear with such mar-velously multiplex results. Had KingSolomon looked at the segregation ofmechanical wonders gathered at Wash-ington he would have paused before ut-. ON THE BIG HILI,, CAN.\DIAN ROCKIES. tering his strong statement that there isnothing new under the sun. In the section which might be allottedto the mechanical contrivances inventedto facilitate the ever-widening domain ofrailroad transportation, it is a remarka-ble fact that a larger number of inven-tions relative to the mechanical appli-ances used on railways are recordedthan that of any other of our industrialbranches. It is our purpose to makesome passing notes on the recorded de-vices affecting railroad appliances, and tothis end we have devoted a limited spacein this months issue of Railway andLocomotive Engineering, and if itmeets the approval of our readers wepurpose continuing it from month tomonth. It need hardly be said that it is im-possible in our limited space to de-scribe in detail the exact particulars re- garding these thick-thronging improve-ments in the important
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