. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ile. (To be continued.) times, and also an electric brake mountedon the armature shaft which is onwhen the current is thrown off. Themotors are designed especially for cranework and are wound for 220 volts, directcurrent. Each motor has its reversiblecontroller and rheostat. This shop is anexcellent example of the best modernpractice in locomotive shop design andequipment. 100 Ton Niles Crane at the New L. M. S. Shops. The 100-ton, s-motor electric travelingcrane which has recently been i
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ile. (To be continued.) times, and also an electric brake mountedon the armature shaft which is onwhen the current is thrown off. Themotors are designed especially for cranework and are wound for 220 volts, directcurrent. Each motor has its reversiblecontroller and rheostat. This shop is anexcellent example of the best modernpractice in locomotive shop design andequipment. 100 Ton Niles Crane at the New L. M. S. Shops. The 100-ton, s-motor electric travelingcrane which has recently been installed Making Electricity Out of Nothing. When writers in ordinary newspapersmake mistakes concerning the laws ofnature in describing inventions, the tech-nical press seldom fail to cast rediculeon the writers. The technical press,therefore, ought to be very careful notto fall into similar mistakes. The fol-lowing article from the New York Tinusreads a sensible lesson on this matter: Our learned friends on the profes-sional and industrial press never wearyof saying derisive things about what. IDEAI, FREIGHT UlILl IIV llVt WDKKS. CYLINUHRS, 17 .\ND -,5 x !li INCHl^s, ;. 3DIAMETER; WEIGHT, 204,800 POUNDS; HEATING SURFACE. 3,1)00 SQUARE FEET; TRACTIVE POWER. 40,000POUNDS. CAN HAUL 1,500 TONS UP GRADE, 50 FEET TO THE MILE. INCHES Hedley, Stephenson, Hackworth andothers. AMERICANS PROCEED TO BUILD R.\ILROADS. That being the condition of engineer-ing knowledge in Great Britain, it wasnot surprising that Americans had tofall back upon their own resources whenthey proceeded to build railroads and toput them into operation. The nationhas always been celebrated for self-re-liance, and the pioneer railroad builderspushed along without hesitation, cross-ing the bridges of difficulty when theywere reached. So far were they guiltlessof imitating English methods that theybuilt and began operating the first rail-road in the world ever projected for gen-eral
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