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Harvard students will be given an opportunity to compete in the "Plot-Boiler" Storiette Contest announced it. The Writer for December. A prize of $50 each month is offered for the best storiette of 1200 to 2000 words, based on a newspaper clipping...
...photographs, drawings, and paintings are dated from the pioneer years of railroading to the present time. Many queer looking engines are portrayed, including the "Samson", "Stoverbridge Lion", the "Norris", and "Boynton Bicycle Engine Number 1" This last contrivance had only one large wheel under the boiler with the engineer's cab located on top of the fireman's cab, the last located only a few feet above the road...
William Hastings Bassett, 60, led the research into the microstructure of copper and its alloys. And from this came dependable, non-corrosive water and steam pipes, boiler tubes to the profit of the American Brass Co., whose technical superintendent...
...first meeting of the Harvard Engineering Society will be held in Pierce Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. Mr. George A. Orrok will speak on "Modern High Pressure Boiler Practice...
...swell. Negro roustabouts exchanged cheers and grimaces. It was an oldtime scene, but without the oldtime violence and danger. Barging into the other boat or crowding it ashore was ruled out. Government inspectors were on hand to see that the racers did not exceed their legal allowances of boiler pressure. The Chris Greene drew a length ahead, two lengths, four lengths, five. The Chris Greene's purser appeared on deck with a big sign: "Chris Greene-Rah, Rah!" Thousands of people cheered from the leafy, sun-shot shores. At the finish the Betsy Ann was about 1000 feet behind...