Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 219
s loss of time. I had seen invarious shops men standing idle, sometimes from fifteen to thirtyminutes, waiting for the traveler to be at liberty to come and givethem a lift. It appeared evident to me that the province of thetraveler was to fetch and carry; not to perform local work, un-less of the… … Cross-section of Machine Shop Proposed by Mr. Porter in 1868, afterthe Design of Smith & Coventry. Smith & Coventry had made numerous improvements on Mr.Whitworths tools. I have already mentioned their arrangementwhich made is possible to take up the wear of the lathe spindlebearings. In…
