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Railway master mechanic (1878)

New York [etc.] Simmons-Boardman Pub. Co. [etc.] · leaf 31

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as been keptup in better shape than ever before. Among the many ingenious devices exhibited atthe Paris exposition an apparatus tor recording theweights upon the several wheels of a locomotive at-tracted attention. This apparatus is very fully de-scribed and illustrated in London Engineering, butwe… … it would if made of a piece of wood with the grainrunning similarly. Accordingly, the loop was madeby bending a i x * in. bar, which thus presented across-fiber to the line of pull as shown in Fig. 2.Tests made with the two forms showed the follow-ing results: Punched bar, broke at 10.5,000 and…

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