Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 336
o sea working steam after this ridiculous fashion, if thecomplicated mechanism required to produce the four movementshad not broken down at the trial of the engines at the dock, beyondthe power of Mr. Allens genius to remedy; so the valves had tobe removed and the Stevens valves and Sickels cut-off… … Emil Brugsch ENGLISH VISITORS 257 then in the world, is such a tax on credulity, that I was glad tofind the following corroboration of it in a letter to Power,from which I copy the essential portion. In one of Mr. Porters Reminiscences/ which I have mislaid,he gives an account of the alterations to…
