Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 106
d of stationary engines being from fifty to sixty revolu-tions. I meekly acquiesced, then made my plans for one hundredand fifty revolutions, and said nothing to anybody. I had no ideaof the gravity of my offence. It was the first time since I wasa child that I had been ordered to do or not to do… … Charles T. PorterA.D. 1862 THE START 69 Mr. Clark showed me my location, and gave me an order for myengine-bed to be brought in immediately, and also other parts ofthe engine as soon as they arrived. Trucks generally, I was told,had to wait in the crowd about ten days for their turn to be…
