Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 32
al of my time in visiting the large engineering workson the East River—the Allaire Works, the Morgan Works and theNovelty Works—and studying tools and machines and principlesand methods of construction. I tried to get my mind saturatedwith mechanics. I finally succeeded in producing the design,this… … George T. Hope INVENTION OF A STONE-DRESSING MACHINE 7 shaft per minute—at which I had determined to run it. This wasmy first employment of high speed. The original model of the machine made 60 strokes per minute.In the machine that broke the stone I had increased the speed to100 strokes per…
