A Life of George WestinghouseAmerican society of mechanical engineers, 1921 - 375 pages |
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Page 319 - The invention of printing, the construction of the magnetic compass, the discovery of America, and the introduction of the steam engine, are the only capital events in modern history which belong to the same category as the Bessemer process.
Page 24 - Welker sitting, in Westinghouse v. The Air Brake Company, 9 Official Gazette, 538. The court said, in its opinion, that while Westinghouse was not the first to conceive the idea of operating railway brakes by air pressure, such fact did not detract at all from his merits or rights as a successful inventor; that the new elements introduced by him " fully substantiated his pretensions as an original and meritorious inventor, and entitled him as such to the amplest protection of the law ; " and that...
Page 9 - A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second, for there is a youth in thoughts as well as in 5 ages.
Page 319 - Of all inventions, the alphabet and the printing press alone excepted, those inventions which abridge distance have done most for the civilization of our species. Every improvement of the means of locomotion benefits mankind morally and intellectually as well as materially, and not only facilitates the interchange of the various productions of nature and art, but tends to remove national and provincial antipathies...
Page 281 - I have . . . purchased this block of stock and propose to put it into the hands of a board of trustees having no connection with Wall Street, with power to vote it for the election of directors — as to twenty-eight of the fifty-two directors, in accordance with the instructions of the policyholders of the Society, and as to the remaining twenty-four directors in accordance with the uncontrolled judgment of the trustees. This division of twenty-eight and twenty-four is in accordance with a plan...
Page 115 - ... equivalent energy at a lower voltage. To have discovered how to make an inert mass of metal capable of transforming alternating currents of 100,000 volts into currents of any required lower voltage with a loss of only a trifle of the energy so transformed would have been to achieve enduring fame. The facts divide this honor among a few, the beneficiaries will be tens of millions.
Page 307 - Exposition was not Darwin's forte — and his English is sometimes wonderful. But there is a marvellous dumb sagacity about him — like that of a sort of miraculous dog — and he gets to the truth by ways as dark as those of the Heathen Chinee.
Page 24 - ... in connection with the fact that Westinghouse was the first, so far as appears in the record and proofs, to put an air-brake into successful actual use, such considerations only strengthen and confirm the soundness of the conclusions to which a careful examination of these prior patents has led us, that there are substantial and essential differences between these prior patents and the Westinghouse apparatus, and that to these differences we may justly attribute the successful and extensive introduction...
Page 67 - The rotation of the wheel is arrested as soon as the friction between the brake-block and the wheel exceeds the adhesion between the wheel and the rail ; and therefore the amount of pressure which should be applied to the wheel is a function of the weight which the wheel brings upon the rail. The value of this function varies with the adhesion ; hence, with a high adhesion...
Page 158 - July, 1910. will bring about gradually the systematic electrification of steam railways, my wish is that the progress of the art may not be hampered and such electrification of our main lines delayed or rendered unprofitable by mistakes which experience, judgment and foresight may enable us to avoid.