Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 230
rawing from which they were made. Knowingthe accuracy with which the work was made to correspond with thedrawings (gun-shop work), I am confident that the wear of thebox after twenty-six years of service had not amounted to fiveone-thousandths of an inch. All the parts give evidence of analmost… … Professor Charles B. Richards THE COLT ARMORY ENGINE 179 felt it his duty to call on General Franklin, the general managerof the company, to warn him that if Richards were permitted toput a number of 75 horse-power engines running at 100 revolu-tions per minute, in the second story of a great…
