Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 163
ame up to me, holding out both hands and grasp-ing mine most cordially. Do you know, said he, that we haveincreased our product 10 per cent., and dont have half as manybroken threads as we had before, and its all that belt. 118 ENGIXEERIXG REMINISCENCES The tendency towards the horizontal type of… … Condenser and Air-pump designed by Mr. Porter. (Cross-section) connected jet condenser. No one believed that an air-pumpcould be made to run successfully at the speed of 150 doublestrokes per minute. Yet this had to be done, or I could not lookfor any considerable adoption of the high-speed engine.…
