Identifier: americanengineer69newy (find matches)
Title: American engineer and railroad journal
Year: 1893 (1890s)
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Subjects: Railroad engineering Engineering Railroads Railroad cars
Publisher: New York : M.N. Forney
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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here it is least needed. In cycling, beginners make no useof the self-steering feature of their cycles, because they cannotsit steadily enough. Their every motion interferes with theSelf-steering tendency of the machine, and it may be. thuswith the machine in the air. It seems most likely that it willbe necessary for the aviator to take advantage of the windcontinually, and to do this he must continually balance, aadoes the bird. Practice will make this easy, just as it liasmade cycling, skating, stilt-walking, and swimming possibleand easy. It probably will he possible to make machines ofsuch si/.e and power that they will go ahead regardless ofsuch things as wind gusts, much as our ocean steamers doto-day ; but it is far more likely that success will be found inthe small individual machine, where the man is a part of thecraft, and where every variation of direction of air current isnoted and either compensated for or made use of by theaviator. Charles E. Ddryea. -2; 4 U2.H<-2£ r
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THROTTLE GRINDED, NEW YORK CENTRAL & HUDSON RIVER RAILROAD. (NOTES AND NEWS. statement that a mechanical bicyclist is an impossibility.One of the requirements of a good cycle nowadays is that itride hands off. This is accepted as a proof of superiorsteering qualities, although such is not necessarily the case,for some fine steerings are not hands-off stereers ; butgiven a machine properly designed to make it a good hands-off steerer, and it will steer itself in a substantially straightline over a uniform surface till the speed dies down. It willdo this whether it carries a rider or not, so it is simply a state-ment of fact to say that a mechanical bicyclist is a possibility,and, further, it is already an accomplished fact. It is knownby most of the older riders that a hands-off steerer if left tosleer itself will make a straighter line than if the rider attemptsto steer it. Fancy riders often ride toward a handkerchiefat speed, dismount backward, allowing the wheel to continueits

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