The wonders of modern mechanism. A résumé of recent progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science (1896)
Cochrane, Charles Henry, 1856- · Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott · leaf 140
e made iu a large field, where helaid a railway track, his idea beiug to rim the machinealong the track until it acquired a speed of about thirty-fivemiles an hour, when it ought to leave the track and soarupward. He met with a great deal of difficulty in securinga motor sufficiently light. The… … maxims flying machink. used. Naphtha vaporizes at such a low temperature thatthis seemed likely to succeed. It was a mechanical suc-cess, but the extreme danger, resulting from the greatinflammability of the vapor, caused its abandonment. Atlast Mr. Maxim came back to the steam-engine, andsought to…
Inventions · Mechanical engineering · Machinery
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