Mowry, William Augustus, 1829-1917, Mowry, Arthur May, 1862- joint author · New York, Boston [etc.] Silver, Burdett and company · leaf 184
of works of art by the general beauty of its effect and its per-fect balance to the eye. Professor Radinger, of the Poly-technic School in Vienna, pronounced the engine one of thegreatest works of the day. This engine stood in the center of Machinery Hall upona platform 56 feet in diameter. The two… … A CORLISS ENGINE. l82 AMERICAN INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS. This engine carried eight main lines of shafting, each linebeing 650 feet in length, and the larger part of this shaftingwas speeded to 120 revolutions a minute, while one line, usedprincipally for wood-working machines, made 240…
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