Remarkable Panama Canal Excavation Records Highlighted
The piece notes daily and monthly earth moved by Army engineers and Panama Canal workers, comparing 1908 figures to the Cheops pyramid. It cites 122,741 cubic yards per day in February with 2,945,880 cubic yards total for February and 21,600,565 cubic yards in two years since 1906, detailing machine use and personnel.
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Panama Canal
Cheops
Union
Philadelphia
Commission
Panama
Pacific
Vertically Folding Doors For Industrial Use
Vertically folding doors with glazed upper panels are being installed on engine houses and manufacturing buildings. Operated by a side chain hoist, the leaves fold upward to stay weatherproof and wind resistant, opening tightly at the top. When closed, glass panels admit light, and partial opening provides ventilation. By raising two inches, four six inch air openings form while remaining stormproof.
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Wade
The Science of Steering Stability in Early Cars
A Motor Age essay explains dynamically stable vs unstable steering. It traces bath chair tiller designs, Levassor’s fatal race link, and how steering direction, wheel grip, and pillar angle affect safety. Dynamics depend on where the wheel is held and how movement aligns with the body's lean.
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M. Levassor
Panhard & Levassor
Safety signals in Hudson tunnels halt trains with automatic brakes
A complete block signal and automatic train stopping system operates in Hudson river tunnels from Manhattan to Hoboken. Signals are denser than on surface lines, with automatic brakes triggered by stop signals. The system uses both rails for propulsion and signaling, enabling breakage protection. it is in use on the Boston elevated and New York subway, and two stop devices protect trains in the Hudson tunnels. Also presents 1906 1907 railway mileage for Canada and global comparisons.
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Hudson River
Manhattan
Hoboken
Manhattan Subway
Hudson
Boston Elevated
Hudson Tunnels
Pathfinder
Cleaning Old Files
An editorial notes that acid cleaning can improve old files by removing wear and grime but cannot restore badly deteriorated ones to full quality. It warns against overestimating the method’s reliability for severely worn documents.
Pulpit at Shrewsbury Abbey Foregate Station
Travelers entering Shrewsbury by Abbey Foregate station notice a remarkable ancient stone pulpit above the coal yard. It is the last remnant of the abbey buildings once used in the monks refectory for preaching and readings during meals.
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Shrewsbury
London
Abbey
Ferdie and Reggie Start the Blooming Engine
Ferdie asks how to start the blooming engine and Reggie explains the engineer simply pulls the bell and it goes. The playful exchange captures their cheeky banter and the comic tone.
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Ferdie
Chapple
Reggie
Abe
Shipshape railways set example for orderly lines
The Century notes midwest railroad managers built a shipshape system with uniform crossties, clean yard areas, and neat stations mirroring ship discipline. It contrasts two embellishment methods, praising the first for harmonizing ornament with function and highlighting the first U.S. line’s artistic, economical success as scarcely replicated today.
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Middle States
Seaboard
United States
Running the Death Special and the Train Crews
In the first 30 minutes the death special becomes a business proposition with payment and approval needed. The head of operations estimates time, schedules routes, notifies division superintendents, and assigns master mechanics to prepare the train. For about 225 miles the engineer and conductor must safely guide the special across towns, bridges, and switches.
Lampoon of a slow southern railroad noted by Grant
Vox P.s lampoon recounts General Grant at a dinner on a slow southern line. A planter wrote to the Rapier asking to end begging along the railroad, telling how an aged veteran with a wooden leg kept pace with the express from Paint Rock to Nola Chucky and questioned readers with VOX POPULI.
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Vox P
F. D. Grant
Rapier
The
Paint Rock
Nola Chucky
VOX Populi
Block signal adoption expands railroad mileage nationwide
There are now nearly 60,000 miles of railroad under block signal operation, with almost 10,000 more miles added in the past year and a half. The expanded mileage is spread across eight systems.
Call of the Hills by Lucretia Dunham Clapp
Moonlit hillside scene as a mountain woman facing an unwanted separation. She tells Jim she must leave for a chance at education and a different life while acknowledging their shared love. He departs, she bids farewell with a final kiss, and the night envelops them.
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Call of the Hills
Lucretia Dunham Clapp
Jim
Seem
Ste
Paige
Amce
Mountains Call Her in a Solemn Night Departure
A girl in a remote mountain cabin bids her father good night then ventures into the silent, moonlit wilderness. Surrounded by forests and misty valleys, she wanders toward an unseen call from the mountains as a roaring torrent and a collapsing forest signal a dramatic, primordial turning point.
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Apa
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Canada
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Quebec
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
British Columbia
New Brunswick
Nova Scotia
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Prince Edward Island
Yukon
New Zealand
Victoria
Australia
New South Wales
France
Great Britain
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St. Clair Tunnel
Shor
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