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...compared with the old, in order to find out which is the faster. The new boat is about six feet shorter than the standard shells which have been used for the past 25 years, and draws almost an inch more water. The stern resembles the sterns of the swift motor-boats...
...Crane, who is a member of the firm of Tams, Lemoyne, and Crane, of New York, has been remarkably successful as a designer of motor-boats; the "Dixie IV" which won the latest of the international races for power boats, was built after his model. He is now attempting to use in racing shells the lines which have proved so speedy in motor-boats...
...Mitigating Circumstance" concerns a freakish motor-boat which gives its owner two unhappy hours and affords the reader an excuse for a few smiles. Perhaps if the humor were not so self-conscious the reader might laugh outright occasionally...
...from Pennsylvania State College in 1885, studied electrical engineering at Cornell for two years. He was vice-president and engineer of the Western Engineering Company of Lincoln, Nebraska, until 1889, when he came into connection with the Edison interests as assistant chief engineer of the Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Company, and later as chief engineer in the central district of the Edison General Electric Company. During this period, he designed, built and operated many of the largest electric railway and lighting plants of the country. As member of the firm of D. C. and William B. Jackson, Professor Jackson...
Professor Jackson was long active in connection with Edison interests as assistant chief engineer of the Sprague Electric Railway and Motor Company and later as chief engineer of the central district of the Edison General Electric Company. During this period he designed, built and operated many of the largest electric railway and lighting plants in this country. He is now advising engineer and expert for several large corporations...