Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 239
was a new departure in steam-engine work in thiscountry. I fancied myself an expert in the art, but found out thatthere was one degree at least that I had not taken. I designedseveral sizes of surface plates, intended primarily to fit the guide-bars of the engines, and also straight edges 6 feet in… … SECTION ON THE LiNE A-B SURFACE PLATE SIDE VIEW Surface Plates Designed by Mr. Porter. fipran in my shop, the little engine or the parts of it that I took toEngland, and long before had fitted my stone-cutting machine inMr. Banks shop. This man I taught all I knew about the art ofproducing true…
