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Tag: Snippets of Instruction

How to name the parts of a buggy

May 29, 2010 Stephen Drew

This image, purporting to name each and every part of a buggy, is from the February 1905 issue of the magazine Popular Mechanics. (Thanks to investigator Rose Fox for bringing it to our attention.) [That’s from the article “Snippets of Instruction,” in AIR 15:4.]

Arts and ScienceBuggy, Snippets of Instruction

How to tend a boiler

February 6, 2010 Stephen Drew

From the book Maxims and Instructions for the Boiler Room [etc.], N. Hawkins, Theo. Audel and Co., New York, 1902: “THE INSPECTION OF STEAM BOILERS. Let it be clearly understood that if there were no steam generators using steam under pressure there would be no boiler inspection, and no licensing of engineers.” [from “Snippets of […]

Arts and ScienceBoiler, Boilers, Snippets of Instruction

How to Run Train Number 43

November 2, 2009 Stephen Drew

This is from the book Explanation of Train Rules, Train Orders, Special Instructions, and Rules Governing the Use of Block Signals and Interlocking Plants, Otho William Brandt, Tiernan-Dart Printing Co., Kansas City, Missouri, 1919. (That’s an excerpt from the article “Snippets of Instruction,” Published in AIR 15:4.)

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