. American engineer and railroad journal . rolls have an ad justment of 20 in. The main gear of this No. 12 machine is 10 ft. diam-eter and 15 in. face, the teeth having 5 in. pitch. The driving engine has two 12 X 16-in. cylinders, and the whole weight is 250 tons. ivylesn id o andTooltself,n the The Baker Submarine Boat. riii: accompanying illustrations, from the Cleveland Marine/oiniiiil, show a submarine torpedo-boat devLsed by c;. Haker, of Des Moines, la. lliis gentleman hasmade a study of the subject for several years, and about a year i5 O o c H O o o Tup; Baldwin Locomotive
. American engineer and railroad journal . rolls have an ad justment of 20 in. The main gear of this No. 12 machine is 10 ft. diam-eter and 15 in. face, the teeth having 5 in. pitch. The driving engine has two 12 X 16-in. cylinders, and the whole weight is 250 tons. ivylesn id o andTooltself,n the The Baker Submarine Boat. riii: accompanying illustrations, from the Cleveland Marine/oiniiiil, show a submarine torpedo-boat devLsed by c;. Haker, of Des Moines, la. lliis gentleman hasmade a study of the subject for several years, and about a year i5 O o c H O o o Tup; Baldwin Locomotive Works,Philadelphia, are 10 heavypassenger locomotives for high speedon the Baltimore & Ohio recent order is for lo consoli-dation and 5 ten wheel engines for theNorfolk vS: Western. Thk Kails Hollow Stay-bolt Company, Cuyahoga Falls,O., has recently received orders for its patent stav-boltsfrom the Michigan Central, the Delaware & Hudson CanalCompany, the Long Island and the Manhattan ago ordered an experimental boat built by F. P. Ballin, of De-troit, Mich. This boat is shown in the cuts, fig. i being a sec-tion and fig. 2 a small sketch showing the general appearanceof the boat under water. The construction of a hull to withstand the pressure at a depth 330 THE RAILROAD AND [July, 1892. of 80 or 100 ft. was no easy problem, but it was solved by using3 in. oak plank 6 in. wide sawed in cylindrical form, so that anumber of pieces joined together made a frame, the framesdiminishing in size from the center frame being bolted togetherso as to form the spheroidal hull. The longitudinal sectionsare parabolic and the cross sections ellipses. This hull wascovered with canvas and then longitudinally planked with The dimensions of the hull are 40 ft. over all, 9 and 14 ft. deep, from top of conning-tower to bottom ofhull being 16 ft. There are live water-tight compartments 2ft. deep between the deck and the ballast hold,
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