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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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he most important articles purchased, the result is certainlya great relief to the purchasing department. It simplifies thework there, not only at the time purchases are made, but lateralso in lessening the amount of correspondence complainingabout defective devices or inferior workmanship or material.—W. V. S. Thome before the New York Railroad Club. The Value of Our Manufactured Products.—In 1905 thevalue of the product of our manufactures amounted to $16,866,-706,985; the total receipts of the steam railroads were $2,325,-765,167. In manufacturing, the value of the product was $1,152for each horse-power installed and the yearly wages amountedto $248 per horse-power. In the railroad industry, the gross re-ceipts amounted to $555 and the yearly wages to $224 per horse-power, rated on a basis comparable to that used in the censusreport covering manufactures.—H. St. Clair Putnam before theConference on the Conservation of Natural Resources. AMERICAN ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAL.
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July, 1908. Wllkh \.\ ENGINEER AND RAILROAD JOURNAI 283 A NEW HTGH POWER WHEEL LATHE. The improvement fn wheel lathes during the past three or years has been continuous and has constantly continued to cutdown the time of turning a pair of loconiotive driving wheelsuntil it lias been reduced to such a point that the time lost inhandling and setting the work and changing the tools has be-come relatively of much greater importance. It is now clearlyevident that any further noticeable improvement in increasingthe output of wheel lathes must be looked for in the directionof reducing the time and labor of performing these operationsrather than increasing the size of cut or the cutting speed. Rec-ognizing this condition, William Sellers & Co., Philadelphia, havedeveloped a design of wheel lathe which, while having all thenecessary power and stiffness to take the heaviest practical cuts,possesses a number of new features, which greatly facilitate thehandling of the work and the tools. The

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