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Updated: May 14, 2025
"Uncle Sidney will be calling for you as soon as he misses you. Why are you so foolish as to talk about resigning? Don't you see what they will say then? that you were afraid?" Ford was leaning against the centered reversing-lever, and his face was gloomy again. "Possibly I am afraid," he suggested. "You should be more afraid of dishonor than of of the other things. Do you suppose Mr.
The steam-cylinders act on the boiler a good deal as a lung-tester acts on a human being; the cylinders draw out the steam from the boiler, requiring a roaring fire to make the vapour rapidly enough and keep up the pressure. Though the engineer seemed to be taking it easily enough with his hand resting lightly on the reversing-lever, his body at rest, the fireman was kept on the jump.
As the train sped on, the engineer moved the reversing-lever notch by notch nearer the centre of the guide. This adjusted the "link-motion" mechanism, which is operated by the driving-axle, and cut off the steam entering the cylinders in such a way that it expanded more fully and economically, thus saving fuel without loss of power.
"I ain't the artist to move her gently enough with all that string o' dinkeys behind her," he said unhopefully. "No?" said Winton. "Come up into the cab with and I'll show you how." And he climbed to the driver's footboard with the doubting engineer at his heels. The reversing-lever went over with a clash; the air whistled into the brakes; and Winton began to ease the throttle open.
It is reversed by means of the same mechanism used on locomotives the link-motion and reversing-lever, by which the direction of the steam is reversed and the engine made to run the other way. All steam-propelled automobiles, from the light steam runabout to the clumsy steam roller, are worked practically as described.
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