. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . t against the steady-pin, andpulls a long reverse lever over from for-ward to backward motion. The word wehave used, psychophysical, simply meansthe combined action of the mind and thebody or as it is often more aptly phrased,to work with brain and hand. In the case before us, a man is har-nessed up with wires and small electricbulbs on his wrists, ankles, etc., and he isthen photographed against a dark back-ground, the lights being arranged so thatthey do not illuminate his body, and theresu
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . t against the steady-pin, andpulls a long reverse lever over from for-ward to backward motion. The word wehave used, psychophysical, simply meansthe combined action of the mind and thebody or as it is often more aptly phrased,to work with brain and hand. In the case before us, a man is har-nessed up with wires and small electricbulbs on his wrists, ankles, etc., and he isthen photographed against a dark back-ground, the lights being arranged so thatthey do not illuminate his body, and theresult is that we get a line of light show-ing bis movement, reduced to its lowestterms, or in skeleton form, the pausesbeing indicated by bulbous bags of lightand the rapid movements by thin undu-lating lines of light. A glance at ourillustrations reveals the fact that thebodily movements necessary to manipu-late the Ragonnet gear are smaller, morecompact, and simpler than for the otherold-time hand-operated gear. In it, onthe other hand, where the man performsthe reversing of an engine in the u! ual. MOVEMENTS OF MAN WITH REVERSE LEV ER. HEAD, ARMS AND FEET, ALL MOVE THROUGH LONG DISTANCES. way, foot, body, arms and hands are allcalled into play and long lines of power-ful action are shown which contrast clearly with the linger and thumb mo-tion required by the Ragonnet gear. In all these motions, whether either gearis employed, they must be made up ofactions in which the mind directs andthe hand performs; and the nearer we
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