Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 293
224 EXGLXEERING REMINISCENCES … REVISION OF THE ENGINE DESIGN 225 sat down by me, and I opened my copy and read to him some-thing in which I knew he would be interested. He said to me,in his gentle way, You would not express it exactly that way,would you? On the instant it flashed on my mind that I hadmade a stupid blunder, and I…
