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Updated: September 17, 2025
"After the class was dismissed, I told the teacher that I did not believe that the little girl was intellectually stupid; that there was probably some physical defect clogging the pathway to her active little brain; and I requested an opportunity to talk to the child at recess, when I found that she could not hear my stop-watch tick until it was within nine inches of her right ear, and eleven inches of her left ear.
Study the exact series of elementary operations or motions which each of these men uses in doing the work which is being investigated, as well as the implements each man uses. Third. Study with a stop-watch the time required to make each of these elementary movements and then select the quickest way of doing each element of the work. Fourth.
He saw them studying the ground; and then a naked youth, on a spirited buckskin, galloped round. It was easy for the Colonel to note the time by his stop-watch and thus have a rough idea of the pony's flat speed on the two miles. He was not surprised one way or the other. The time was considerably over four minutes, which merely proved it to be an ordinarily good horse.
I protested, as he rose to go. "What shoeing?" he asked incredulously. "You ain't meanin' a big strong guy like Chris manhandlin' a pore little filly? Come awn I can't stand to see him abusin' her no more." We wandered down to the big brown oval, and Blister, perching himself on the top rail of the fence, took out his stop-watch, although there were no horses on the track.
"Goin' to take a little run, eh?" inquired Stover. "We allowed we'd lay off a few minutes and watch you." "Thanks!" "Yes," Fresno spoke up. "I told the boys we'd better hold a stop- watch on you and see what shape you're in." "A stop-watch?" said Glass, sharply. "Yes. I have one." "Not to-day," said Speed's trainer. "No!" he admonished, as his protege turned upon him. "Some other time, mebbe.
"When walking, his step is about twenty-six inches long, but when terrified and forced to run, his stride is from twelve to fourteen feet in length. Once I had a pretty fair opportunity of counting his rate of speed with a stop-watch, and found that there were about thirty steps in ten seconds; this, taking his average stride at twelve feet, gives a speed of twenty-six miles an hour.
The trackman was a person accustomed to the reality and not the theory of things. "I don't see how the accident would have been any different," he said, "if somebody had put that tree in the right spot to catch the coach; or timed the minute with a stop-watch to kill that brakeman; or piled that wreck on the man so it wouldn't hurt him. The result would have been just the same."
After the usual annoying delay the horses were dismissed with an excellent start. Bijou jumped immediately to the front, and Nal threw his hat high into the air. "Ain't she a cyclone?" he shouted, standing upon the wagon seat and waving his stop-watch. "Look at her, I say, look at her!" The people in his vicinity stared, smiled, and finally cheered. Most of them knew Nal and liked him well.
Soon there she was did it all by herself atop of the water. And the face of the young fellow of the automatic devices was like the face of the devout missionary who has just put something over on the heathen. Later, when you express the feeling of almost holy comfort which these little automatic safety devices give you, the manager the same with the stop-watch and the note-book says, "Puh!
In addition to this private trials are necessary in the presence of someone who is accustomed to timing races by the aid of a stop-watch a by no means easy task, considering that a slight particle of a second means so many yards, and the average speed working out at about 16 yards per second nearly twice as fast as the fastest pedestrian sprinter, and altogether beyond the power of the fleetest race-horse.
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