Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 114
tion to all appearance absolutelyfruitless—a failure, which I was utterly at a loss to comprehend,when I had a call from Mr. James Easton, the same man who hadfirst welcomed me in England. His firm had perhaps the largestexhibit in the Machinery Hall, of a waterfall supplied by a centri-… … fugal pump, and they had been frequent observers of the runningof my engine, which was quite near them. Mr. Easton bluntlyasked me if I thought my engine could be run 50 per cent, fasteror at 225 revolutions per minute, because they had concluded thatit could be, and if I agreed with them they had…
