. Book of the Royal blue . ngthe edge of the platform and found that theweight of the brickbat was just one pound. Turning to the reporter he said themachine is so sensitive that it will givethe exact weight of anything from a poundof feathers to a pair of 13-inch guns, anddo it accurately. The capacity of thescales is 150 tons, or double the capacityof the old set, removed when the presentapparatus was installed. A 13-inch gunweighs about fifty-five tons. Two of thesemonster instruments of war, reclining on a48-foot car truck, can be weighed on themachine without taxing its capacity. The near
. Book of the Royal blue . ngthe edge of the platform and found that theweight of the brickbat was just one pound. Turning to the reporter he said themachine is so sensitive that it will givethe exact weight of anything from a poundof feathers to a pair of 13-inch guns, anddo it accurately. The capacity of thescales is 150 tons, or double the capacityof the old set, removed when the presentapparatus was installed. A 13-inch gunweighs about fifty-five tons. Two of thesemonster instruments of war, reclining on a48-foot car truck, can be weighed on themachine without taxing its capacity. The nearest approach to the navy yardscales to be found in this city are the bigweighing machines of the the navy yard machine now com-pels them to take a back seat, they wereonce envied by the smaller scales as thegiants of the capital. The Baltimore &Ohio Company has one of similar capacityin its yard within the city and there is an-other set of scales of like capacity at itsgrain elevator and new coal
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