American Machinist Memories
Engines 1900-1902
Engines! Gas,
oil, steam, even perpetual??!? You get engine articles appearing during the
years 1900 through 1902. You get a little of everything from letters from
machinists on how solve problems encountered during turning piston rings,
to announcements of new gas engines, to huge engines on display at the exhibition
in Dusseldorf.
My favorite has to be the stories covering the construction and installation of the 5,000 and 8,000 hp steam engines in the power houses in New York City needed to convert the "el" over from steam to electricity. In addition, to articles from American Machinist, you also get a pair of articles from Engineering Magazine with their incredible photographs showing these giant engines being assembled. They are stunning. (One of these photos appeared on our catalog cover a few summers ago.)
Learn
how slide valve ports should be checked and how the Sweet valve diagram from
1884 is still useful. Check out the perpetual motion machine that slipped
past patent office inspectors. Check out the latest attempt at a "flexible"
gas engine, and even how steel wheels were manufactured for the new "hi-tech"
gas tractors.
Check
out the table of contents below. This a fun, heavily illustrated book worth
having. If engines interest you (and if they don't, I'm gonna hafta send Big
Bubba out to knock some sense into ya...), you'll like this. Get a copy! 8-1/2
x 11 softcover 96 pages
No. 22814 ...none left - no plans to reprint
CONTENTS
Two Ways of Machining an Engine Frame * Steam Engine Wreck * An Improved Prony Brake * An Outfit for the Manufacture of Large Segmental Flywheels * Steel Flywheels for the Metropolitan Street Railway Company * An Automatic Cross Compound Steam Engine * Poleforcia * Steam Ports - The Sweet Valve Diagram * The Application of Sweet's Diagram to the Meyer Valve * Manufacturing Connecting Rods for Steam Engines. * Port Openings in Single Valve Automatic Cut-off Engines * A New Attempt at a Flexible Gas Engine * Steel Wheels * The Avery Engine in a Saw Mill. * Leading Features of the De Laval Steam Turbine * The Howard Gasoline Launch Engine * Leading Features of the Westinghouse-Parsons Steam Turbine * Casting the Hubs on Steel Wheels * A Rear-Compression Explosion Engine * Port Opening in Steam Engines * Rig for Truing Crank-shaft and Crank-pin * Large Engines for Manhattan Elevated Railway * A Piston Speed Chart * Stock for Piston Rings * Repairing an Engine Under Difficulties * A Boring Fixture for Small Rod Ends * A Gas Engine Cylinder Pattern * Gates and Gating * The Allis Engines at Glasgow * Hard and Dangerous Boiler Practice Years Ago * Some Shop Engine Indicator Diagrams * The Maywood Gas Engine * Seventieth Anniversary of the Baldwin Locomotive Works * Old Steam Engine Indicators * The Reid Gas Engine * A Successful Rotary Engine * Richard Trevithick - An Unappreciated Inventor * High Speed Engine * Test of an Otto Gasoline Engine * Tandem Compound Steam Cylinders with Pistons and Cylinder Covers Arranged for Easy Removal * Making Gas Engines Go * A Water Dynamometer * Crankshaft Turning * Repairing a Cracked Flywheel. * Railroad Engineering Reminiscences * Laying out a Triplex Crank * Piston Rings for Gas Engines * A Slide Valve Job * High Power Gas Engines at the Dusseldorf Exposition * The Steam Engine For The Electric Traction Power-House * The Steam Engine For The Electric Traction Power-House
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