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Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)

Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 410

An illustration from Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist", 1908, leaf 410 — Charles A. Otis TRICKS OF THE SUPERINTENDENT 313 One clay the superintendent came into the office and told mehe had tried my machine for facing nuts and it would not work.I felt disappointed, because I had confidence in it. I went outto see what the matter was, and at a glance I saw that it had… … Porter-Allen Engine 40x 48*+207Dash pot for Governor. reduce the feed-motion, but increased the speed of the cuttersand the belt some eight or ten-fold, when the trouble vanished.I never knew anything to work better than that tool did. The burning anxiety of the superintendent was to show up…

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