Identifier: factoryindustria15newy (find matches)
Title: Factory and industrial management
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering Factory management Industrial efficiency
Publisher: New York (etc.) McGraw-Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Engineering - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ubt that even a slightlyhigher velocity might have been reached, as the engine was not onlysteaming freely, but exhausting her waste steam well, when thehighest point was reached. A speed of 80 miles an hour and upwardwas maintained for 13 consecutive miles. The travelling was ad-mirable in its smoothness aud absence of oscillation. It may be of interest to explain the method that I always employin testing si)ec(ls. While mechanical s()eed-indicators, such as theUoyer, VVestinghou.se, etc., may doubtless work well in favourablecircumstances, they recpiire special attachment and fitting. It ispreferable, therefore, to perfect a system which can be applied to anyengine and train, provided that mileposts or distance-points can berecognised. My method is to use three excellent rhron()grai)hs—onewith the s()lit seconds movement—and a vval( h. At each (piarter-mile-post one instrument is started, and another simultaneouslystopped. At the end of each mile the split-seconds-hand is split,
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y. wi X f. O 97 98 NOTABLE SPEED-TRIALS and, at the end of the total length selected for the trial, the chrono-graph also is stopped, and the times of passing stations, signal-boxes,etc., are noted by the watch. Each observation is at once noteddown, either by myself in a note-book open and in readiness, or by ashorthand assistant to whom it is orally dictated. In this way thedisturbing element of personal equation is virtually eliminated, and athoroughly effective triple check is secured. No less elaboratemethod can be regarded as entirely trustworthy. This article would be incomplete without some reference to cer-tain noble trials of speed which have taken place between rival com-panies. Most prominent among these were the celebrated races between the East and West Coast routes, from London to Edinburghand Aberdeen respectively, which occurred m 1888 and 1895. Viewed in the light of the experiences of 1895, the race of1888 now seems a very mild affair, every record made in the forme

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