Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 320
0 feet apart; the shaft carried two belt drums S or 10 feetin diameter, one of them near to the bed of each engine: at themiddle of the shaft was a fly-wheel about 10 feet in diameter.The rim of this fly-wheel was in eight or ten segments, with an armattached to the middle of each segment; the… … Professor Francis Reuleaux THE PHILADELPHIA CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION 247 on the saw arbors. On starting these engines the two bearings ofthe main shaft heated so badly that the engines had to be stopped.The gentleman in charge of the exhibit applied to me for advice.I told him that although his shaft…
