 ... hills, and every time we opened up the engine and she got to about 300 revolutions the whole hill shook under her. We shut her off and rebalanced and tried again, and after a good deal of trouble we finally did run up to 700, but you should have seen...  Science and Industry - Page 1351901Full view - About this book
 | Francis Arthur Jones - Biography & Autobiography - 1907 - 434 pages
...we finally did run up to 700, but you should have seen her run ! Why, every time the connecting rod went up she tried to lift that whole hill with her...beautifully it runs, and how practicable such an engine is ! ' We closed a bill for six engines, and I went to work in Goerck Street to build the dynamos on to... | |
 | Francis Rolt-Wheeler - 1915 - 238 pages
...we finally did run up to 700, but you should have seen her run ! Why, every time the connecting rod went up, she tried to lift that whole hill with her!...down to 350 revolutions (which was all I wanted). . . . We closed a bill with Porter for six engines. "While all this was going on in the shop, we had... | |
 | Asa Don Dickinson - Biography - 1916 - 238 pages
...we finally did run up to 700, but you should have seen her run! Why, every time the connecting rod went up she tried to lift that whole hill with her!...beautifully it runs, and how practicable such an engine is!" We closed a bill for six engines, and I went to work in Goerck Street to build the dynamos on to them.... | |
 | Francis Arthur Jones - Electrical engineers - 1924 - 456 pages
...we finally did run up to 700, but you should have seen her run! Why, every time the connecting rod went up she tried to lift that whole hill with her...beautifully it runs, and how practicable such an engine is!' We closed a bill for six engines, and I went to work in Goerck Street to build the dynamos on to them.... | |
 | Locomotives - 1901 - 904 pages
...but you ought to have seen her run. Why, every time the connecting rod went up she tried to lift the whole hill with her ! After we got through with this...impossible makes about half the impossible seem easy? "When I started making dynamos," Mr. Edison said, with an introspective look, "I was told that to get... | |
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