Engineering reminiscences contributed to "Power" and "American machinist" (1908)
Porter, Charles T. (Charles Talbot), 1826-1910 · New York, J. Wiley · leaf 412
ill have to make it eight. Some time in 18S1 or 1882 I had a queer experience withan engine for the New York Post Office. It was to take theplace of an engine then running. The engineer of the PostOffice informed me that this engine had a cylinder twelve inchesin diameter. I told him it looked to… … Daniel J. Morrell N. Y. POST OFFICE ENGINE. 315 back head off, but I might rely upon it being twelve inches. SoI did rely upon it being fourteen inches, furnished an engine ac-cordingly, and found it to be the size needed. Some time after the engine was started I received a line fromthe Postmaster…
