Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 348
nor is working very badly; they have notnoticed it yet as they have thought only of the running of thetrain, but they will. By a remarkable coincidence T had thatvery morning received the letter from Mr. Hunt which had openedmy eyes to the cause of this bad action; the day before I couldnot have… … Stephen W. Baldwin INTRODUCTION OF HARRIS TABOR 265 had the levers forged and finished, joint-pins set and key wayscut, perfect duplicates of the disks in all their working features.When I told my purpose to Mr. Douglas he smiled and said for thelife of him he could not see what disks on the…
