Inventors at work, with chapters on discovery (1906)
Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 167
ons of a ship are enlarged. Now we begin to realize how great is the boon of cheap steel, much stronger than iron, of which ships and engines may be built bigger than at any earlier period. Steel of Bigness Needs great strength has made feasible, too, the Eiffel Tower in Paris, nearly a thousand… … MECHANICAL FLIGHT 129 Central & Hudson River Railroad Company began comparisonsbetween an electric locomotive of 201,000 pounds, shown oppositepage 476, and a steam locomotive so huge that with its tender itweighed no less than 342,000 pounds. Steel, as the material ofengines and tools of all…
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