Pacific service magazine . Number 4 Yearly Subscription $ -- Single Copies, Each 15 Gents Contents for September, 1918 View on Bltte Creek, De Sabla District Fronlispiece STEAM Hughes ... 99 OUR PACIFIC SERVICE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION 108 THE PACIFIC SERVICE ROLL OF HONOR 113 OVER THE TOP (OF THE NET) .... S. E. Carpenter . IIG THE FINANCIAL SIDE OF PACIFIC SERV-ICE 118 EDITORIAL 120 TIDINGS FROM TERRITORIAL DISTRICTS 122 Index to Advertisers Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co ii Chaplin-Fulton Mfg. Co v General Electric Co Graham, Jas., Mfg. Co iv National City Company 4th page co
Pacific service magazine . Number 4 Yearly Subscription $ -- Single Copies, Each 15 Gents Contents for September, 1918 View on Bltte Creek, De Sabla District Fronlispiece STEAM Hughes ... 99 OUR PACIFIC SERVICE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION 108 THE PACIFIC SERVICE ROLL OF HONOR 113 OVER THE TOP (OF THE NET) .... S. E. Carpenter . IIG THE FINANCIAL SIDE OF PACIFIC SERV-ICE 118 EDITORIAL 120 TIDINGS FROM TERRITORIAL DISTRICTS 122 Index to Advertisers Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co ii Chaplin-Fulton Mfg. Co v General Electric Co Graham, Jas., Mfg. Co iv National City Company 4th page cover Pacific Meter Co X Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co vi Pelton Water Wheel Co >v Sprague Meter Co v Standard Underground Cable Co v Steiger & Kerr Stove & Foundry Co i Welsbach Company v Western Engineering Publishing Co iii Western Pipe & Steel Co. of California iv Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co vii Wood. R. & Co ii iO. PACIFIC SERVICE MAGAZINE Volume X SEPTEMBER, 1918 Number 4 Steam By V. R. HUGHES, Safety Engineer THERE seems to be misconception inthe minds of a great many people asto tlie true origin of the steam Watt has been pretty generallycredited with the discovery of utilizingsteam to do mechanical work, the ideacoming to him through observing thebobbing up and down of the lid on hismothers teakettle; however, that is justa story and nothing more. As a matterof fact, the idea is of very much olderdate, as will be seen from the followingrelation of historical fact. The first steam engine or steam-oper-ated device that we have any record ofwas made by Hero, a mathematician ofAlexandria, about the year 130 B. C. Thishas been described as a revolving spher-ical vessel pivoted on a central axis andsupplied with steam through one of thepivots, as shown in Fig. 1. There hasbeen some question, however, as towhether Hero generated the steam in aseparate stationary receptacle, as por-tray
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