 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1888 - 824 pages
...byHoratioAllen,for the South Carolina Railway, in 1831, but the first practical use of it was made on the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, in the same year....Engineer of that road. The next improvement was the invention of the equalizing beams or levers, by which the weight of the engine is always borne by three... | |
 | Thomas Curtis Clarke - 1889 - 492 pages
...Horatio Allen, for the South Carolina Railway, in 1831 ; but the first practical use of it was made on the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, in the same year....Engineer of that road. The next improvement was the invention of the equalizing beams or levers, by which the weight of the engine is always borne by three... | |
 | Thomas McIntyre Cooley - 1890 - 456 pages
...Horatio Allen, for the South Carolina Railway, in 1831 ; but the first practical use of it was made on the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, in the same year....Engineer of that road. The next improvement was the invention of the equalizing beams or levers, by which the weight of the engine is always borne by three... | |
 | Rudolph August Witthaus - 1894 - 830 pages
...wheels of our locomotives and under cars overcomes many of the dangerous elements of curves ; likewise, the equalizing beams or levers by which the weight of the engine is always borne by three or more driving-wheels. The latter " act like a three-legged stool which can always be set level on... | |
 | Nelson Appleton Miles, Marion Perry Maus - 1896 - 616 pages
...some way to overcome these obstacles. The result was that the swivelling truck was invented, and also the equalizing beams or levers, by which the weight...borne by three out of four or more driving wheels. These two improvements, which are absolutely necessary for the building of roads in new counon the... | |
 | Rudolph August Witthaus - 1907 - 1058 pages
...wheels of our locomotives and under cai-s overcomes many of the dangerous elements of curves; likewise the equalizing beams or levers by which the weight of the engine is always borne by three or more driving wheels. The latter " act like a three-legged stool, which can always be set level on... | |
 | Nelson A. Miles - 1992 - 298 pages
...way to overcome these obstacles. The result was that the swiv-' elling truck was invented, and also the equalizing beams or levers, by which the weight...borne by three out of four or more driving wheels. These two improvements, which are absolutely necessary for the building of roads in new countries,... | |
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... have been necessary but for the swivelling truck. The swivelling truck was first suggested by Horatio Allen, for the South Carolina Railway, in 1831 ; but the first practical use of it was made on the Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, in the same year.... 