Identifier: locomotiveengine08hill (find matches)
Title: Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, John A. (John Alexander), 1858-1916 Sinclair, Angus, 1841-1919
Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair, J.A. Hill (etc.)
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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by piece, so to speak,and perhaps he could—no one can say tothe contrary—if he could have had theopportunity of working out his schemes.But he had no money with which to pushhis invention, and, mechanic-like, when hehad made up his mind a thing would work,that was almost satisfaction enough. Ifsomeone else could not see it his wa^, whyit was unfortunate for someone else.^ Notthat he was conceited ; I know to the the matter in the courts, the other fel-low did not know enough to make hisscheme work. But this is digression. At the timeRichardson sprung his pop valve on rail-road mechanical practice there was notany particular enthusiasm in regard to it.Everybody knew that the types of safetyvalves then in use were entirely inadequateto the demands of the larger engines thencoming into use. The prevailing type wasthe old-style valve, held down by the Salterbalance. Everyone familiar with the subjectknows of this or similar valves. They willgive warning of an intention, or at least a
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Hecla & Torch Lake R.R., 4contrary of this by years of e.vperience. Butwhen a mechanic—and Richardson was amechanic if ever there was one—hasstudied his plans and formulated his con-clusions, he does not change theni for thefirst breatli th?* blows contrary to hisopinions. But to cut this sho t, Richardson lackedcapital, and he entrusted his drawings toa man who had friends at court, inother words, to some one who, presumabl).could bring the matter before the Navy De-partment, and from the endorsement ofthis department he could, so he thought,and so he was promised, get plenty ofbacking to pxish the svibmarine gun project. But the matter miscarried, and somehow,in a short time Richardson saw his inven-tion patented b^- another party. Thewhole scheme was so identical with whathe had done and described, that there wasnot the least doubt but the drawings hadgone astray, as often happens in such cases. In new hands it turned out to be worth-less, but Richardson always insisted tha

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