Wonders And Curiosities of the Railway, Or, Stories of the Locomotive in Every Land
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never up to this time been told, and the present chapter is therefore a new contribution to the history of inventions.
Steam hoists of one kind or another for the lifting of freight have been in use for perhaps a century. In America the first man to manufacture platform freight elevators seems to have been Henry Waterman, of New York city.
As early as 1850 one of his machines was in use by Hecker, of New York. The Tathams had them in 1853, and at about the same time either Waterman's machine or... some very like them were in use in the establishment of Harper and Brothers. A cut of Waterman's machine, made from a rough sketch, is given on the next page.* The elevator was operated by means of a lever within the car (or rather within the frame-work of the car : the first dosed car was designed by Otis Tufts). The lever took the place of the modern hand rope (or shipper rope) and served 'to throw the driving machinery into or out of gear. Waterman's shop was in Duane street, near Centre. About the same time that he was making elevators in New York, George H.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
never up to this time been told, and the present chapter is therefore a new contribution to the history of inventions.
Steam hoists of one kind or another for the lifting of freight have been in use for perhaps a century. In America the first man to manufacture platform freight elevators seems to have been Henry Waterman, of New York city.
As early as 1850 one of his machines was in use by Hecker, of New York. The Tathams had them in 1853, and at about the same time either Waterman's machine or... some very like them were in use in the establishment of Harper and Brothers. A cut of Waterman's machine, made from a rough sketch, is given on the next page.* The elevator was operated by means of a lever within the car (or rather within the frame-work of the car : the first dosed car was designed by Otis Tufts). The lever took the place of the modern hand rope (or shipper rope) and served 'to throw the driving machinery into or out of gear. Waterman's shop was in Duane street, near Centre. About the same time that he was making elevators in New York, George H.
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