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Title: Cassier's magazine
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering
Publisher: New York Cassier Magazine Co.
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proper cars,upon an industrial railway system,the demands of the efficient factorycall for power traction, and in re-sponse to this demand the storage-battery locomotive has now beenproduced. Thus there is available a completesystem of power traction for shopservice which reduces the number ofmen engaged in this department to aminimum, and substitutes for theirinefficient and expensive efforts thewholly satisfactory industrial system,and effects within the walls of theworkshop as complete a revolution asthe introduction of railways producedover the external world. It is by such scientific methods thatmaximum shop efficiency may be at-tained, removing, as much as possi-ble, the fallible and variable humanelement, and replacing it by mechan-ical appliances of known and deter-minate efficiency and using the ser-vices of highly skilled mechanics—men who work with their heads asmuch as with their hands—to effectthe results which cannot be ac-complished by mechanical appliancesalone. 52
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Hunt Storage Battery Locomotive 21^ Inches GaugeWRITE FOR NEW CATALOGUE 068 WRITE for this Catalogueif you want to find out themost efficient and economicalmethod of transporting raw andfinished materials in and aroundyour Works or Factory. Thefinancial success of a businesssometimes rests on one item—theworking expenses—and a verymarked reduction can be effectedby using a Hunt Electric StorageBattery Locomotive. At oneplant this locomotive displacedeight men and one horse. Coupledto six cars each carrying one andone-half to two tons, the locomo-tive made a round trip in eighteenminutes. It had previously takenone hour to cover the same dis-tance with a horse. The samelocomotive hauled a train of cars up a grade on a curve, work whichhad previously required the ser-vices of ten men. It goes aroundcurves as easily as a wagon turnsa corner. A Storage Battery fur-nishes the power, and is rechargedduring the night or during theday when the locomotive is not inoperation. It is ready fo

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