. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . entlyoccurred. The small tools consisted of apair of outside and an inside pair of cali- LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. pcrs, a file, and a steel straight-edge(home-made) 12,inches long, which wasdivided into inches, ]/z, %, %, 1-16 inch,one of the inches being divided intothirty-seconds, and used for measuringas well as for a straight-edge. The latter part of the present centuryis remarkable for the success attained indesigning and perfecting instrumentsand methods for correcting the old andimperfect system of
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . entlyoccurred. The small tools consisted of apair of outside and an inside pair of cali- LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. pcrs, a file, and a steel straight-edge(home-made) 12,inches long, which wasdivided into inches, ]/z, %, %, 1-16 inch,one of the inches being divided intothirty-seconds, and used for measuringas well as for a straight-edge. The latter part of the present centuryis remarkable for the success attained indesigning and perfecting instrumentsand methods for correcting the old andimperfect system of former years; the in-vention and construction of instrumentsof precision, and the methods of theircalibration and adjustment, which enablemeasurements to be taken withininch; machines for measuring tapers, established in Tokio, fig g on thi pi 1 in,, e of the I ngli ii rail I 1 hat one I mothe pei tinee mile 1, and or • in, half passenger coach per mil- and tenfreight cars per mil are requiredmat< I that a ) 1 ar or more <■■■•■ thena deficiency on the Japanese railro. .I [00,000 nst be provided. By a low estimate, the pur wouldan expenditure of $15,000,0001 1 In relation to this 11 mill , I asked Mi Vsano,dent it one of tin- new steamship lines, RUSSIAN ENGINEERS-GT. SIBERIANRAILROAD. which enable the mechanic to fit taperwork with almost the same perfection andfacility as parallel work, a refinement ofpractice peculiar to modern times, and ofwhich a mechanic of fifty years ago couldhave no conception, either of their pos-sibility or practical value. s $ I Railway flaterial Needed in Japan. The National Association of Manufac-turers of the United States sent Mr. Rob-ert P. Porter to investigate the commerceand industries of Japan. In the courseof the report made to the association, says: The projectors of a factoryfor the manufacture of rolling stock forJapanese roads, which it was proposed to
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