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Identifier: popularsciencemo89newyuoft (find matches)
Title: Popular science monthly
Year: 1872 (1870s)
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Subjects: Science
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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the orderchanges. It is not, as might be e.xpected,Save property. It is Clear thelines. It makes no difference that fivejumbled freight-cars contain expensiveautomobiles, or pianos, or phonographs,or fruit, which might be savcfl by carefulwork. If the contents cannot be savedin less than an hour, there is only onething to do. The big steam crane isbacked down to the mess, a long,tentacle-like hook descends, chains andropes are brought into play, and slowly,surely, almost daintily, the crane swingsthe wrecked freight-car and its contentsto one side. Sometimes the easiest way to clearthe lines is to burn the wreck or blow itup. Track can be cjuickly relaid, ifdamaged, but nothing can replace losttime. The price of a cargo of auto-mobiles is nothing against a five-hourilelay. For the price of delay mounts instunning geometrical progression. .Afew hundred dollars for the first hour,it may be many thousands ot dollars inthe second or third hour. A stoppage 16!) 170 Popular Science Monthly
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The crane can pick up and transplant five tons of twisted steel as eas-ly as a nurse can lifta babv from a perambulator. When the great tentacle-like hook descends, chams and ropesare broueht into play, and slowly, surely, almost daintily, the crane swings the wreck tooneside If it cannot be lifted it is burned or blown up. The price of a cargo of autoniobilesis nothing compared with a five-hour delay or the disruption of a railroad s tram schedule Popular Science Montlihj 171

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  • bookdecade:1870
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Science
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