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The former has a maximum speed of sixty-five miles and the Jandel slightly faster." "But that is only half what that Mr. Bartholomew demands of your invention, Tom!" Mary cried. "That is a fact. I must reach twice sixty miles an hour, anyway, to meet his demand and gain that hundred thousand bonus.
Supposedly an electric motor-drive should achieve the same speed on a hill as on the level. But there is the weight of the train to be counted on. "The H. & P. A. has a two per cent. grade in more than one place. Mr. Bartholomew confessed as much to me last night. The electric-driven locomotive of the powerful freight type, which the Jandel people built for Mr.
"The Jandel patent that my road uses is, in some degree, the equal of those Baldwin-Westinghouse locomotives. At least, our machines equal the C., M. & St. P. on our level road. They can reach a mile-a-minute gait. But when it comes to speed and pull on steep grades Ah! that is where they fail." "You will have to get power in the hills for your stations," suggested Tom, thoughtfully.
He saw the Jandel locomotives hurry back and forth with the local trains and realized that this rival invention was by no means to be despised. It was at about this time, too, that Mr. Damon appeared in Hendrickton.
You understand that their rails do not begin to engage the grades that our engineers thought necessary when the old H. & P. A. was built." "I get that," said Tom briskly. "You have come here, then, to interest us in the development of a faster but quite as powerful type of electric locomotive as the Jandel." "Stated to the line!" exclaimed Mr.
He could obtain a right of way order from the train dispatcher on that grade, sometimes of an hour's duration. He often snaked a load of gondolas or cattle cars up the grade, relieving both the puller and pusher steam locomotive. By this time the H. & P. A. system had stopped using the Jandel machines on any grades. They had proved their lack of power for such work.
If you will experiment with the electric locomotive idea, to develop speed and power over and above the Jandel patent, and will give me the first call on the use of any patents you may contrive, I will put up twenty-five thousand dollars in cash which shall be yours whether I can make use of a thing you invent or not." "Any time limit in this agreement, Mr.
We are using the Jandel locomotives on our electrified stretch of road. You know that patent?" "I know something about it, Mr. Bartholomew," said the younger inventor. "I have felt some interest in the electric locomotive, though I have done nothing practical in the matter. But I know the Jandel patent." "It is about the best there is and the most recent; but it does not fill the bill.
We'll get him extradited and put him through for ten years or more right in this county." The private investigator, however, as the weeks went by, could not find any man who filled O'Malley's description. Meanwhile Tom Swift had got what he called "a lead" and was working day and night upon the invention that he believed might make even the Jandel people respectful, if not a bit envious.
"No more marvelous than the big electric motors that drag the trains into New York City, for instance, through the tunnels. Steam engines cannot be used in those tunnels for obvious, as well as legal, reasons. They are all wonderful machines, using third-rail power. "But that Jandel patent that Mr. Bartholomew is using out there on the H. & P. A. is probably the highest type of such motors.
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