Eminent engineers; brief biographies of thirty-two of the inventors and engineers who did most to further mechanical progress (1906)
Goddard, Dwight, 1861-1939 · New York, The Derry-Collard company · leaf 92
tionto cranks, was lighter and far speedier, going at the rateof nearly one mile a minute and 32 miles an hour. It was an experimental engine and built altogethertoo light for the service. After several delays owing tobreakage and defects due to construction rather than tothe principles involved,… … 90 Ericsson. at the time thought it to be a better engine than Stephen-sons Rocket. With this Ericsson appears to have droppedlocomotive construction. In the years that followed inventions came from hisprolific brain at the rate of three and four a year. A suc-cessful steam turbine, that he would…
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