Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 204
ter, that this is on thecommencement of the stroke, but at a point near its commence-ment. I was obliged to answer him that I intended to say thatprecisely on the dead center, at the point where motion in onedirection had ceased and that in the opposite direction had notyet commenced, at that… … Frederick J. Slade APPRECIATIOX OF ZERAII COLBURN 155 After the reading was concluded, Mr. E. A. Cowper took thefloor, and stated that I was entirely mistaken in my explanationof this action, that this had been investigated by a gentleman whosename he gave but which I have forgotten, and who had…
