. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . FIG. 6. ALBION, BUILT FOR CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS. for the arrangement of mechanism beingthat it produced perfect balance of thereciprocating and revolving parts. I won-der that the hammer blow alarmist nevertried this engine. The driving axle was secured betweenthe frames and set parallel to the wheel Vertical cylinders were employed, trans-mitting the power through a central shaftThis engine was not only an oddity, itwas a fake of the worst kind. Instead ofan advance in design, it was returning t
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . FIG. 6. ALBION, BUILT FOR CAMBRIAN RAILWAYS. for the arrangement of mechanism beingthat it produced perfect balance of thereciprocating and revolving parts. I won-der that the hammer blow alarmist nevertried this engine. The driving axle was secured betweenthe frames and set parallel to the wheel Vertical cylinders were employed, trans-mitting the power through a central shaftThis engine was not only an oddity, itwas a fake of the worst kind. Instead ofan advance in design, it was returning topioneer practices, being a product of com-bined ignorance, egotism and perversity. 400 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE EKGLXLLRING Scptciiiljcr, 1937. Ever since people became inventors ofmechanical appliances, there have beenpersistent attempts made to overcome thelaws of nature by arrangements of mech-anism designed to produce perpetual mo- Superheaters. At the beKiuniiiL: of 1906, tliore were,according to the Master MechanicsAssociation report on superheaters,eleven engines in the L^nited States, so. may be in superheat. Experiments^^^th superheating have been commonsince Watts time, and mild epidemicsof superheating advantages have beencommon. Various systems of super-heating have been introduced at varioustimes and zeal to increase their efficien-cy has been their undoing. A super-heater that causes shut-downs soongets on the nerves of the engineers andof the owners. tion. In some instances inventors laboredto produce apparatus that would maintainmotion of their own unaided volition,others labored by combinations of nieclianism to gain power by leverages or theirequivalents. Of this class of inventionwas the Harrison locomotiveshown in Fig. 10. In this en-gine the real driving had geared peripheriesengaged with cogs on the railwheel axle. The expectationwas that excessive speedcould be maintained with re-duced expenditure of power,as the piston speed could beregulated
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