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Show WHEN JAMES TOOK A HAND His Story of How Wonderful Machine Worked First Caused Astonish ment and Then Disgust. - ' I While I was running n bolt cutter nt tho Rock Island shops In Chicago, writes n contributor to Hallway nnd Locomothe Engineering, 1 boarded nt n house which wns frequented by lo- comotlNc engineers nnd llremcn. Those i men talked a great deal about their tremendous fents In getting over ccr- i tnln hills without the help of a second locomotive. ! Sly oppolto neighbor at n tnble, n I young fellow who ran a lathe In the shop, grew tired of this monotonous bragging; he thought he wns entitled to do n llttlo talking himself. One eve ntng he called out to me: I "Well, I went over nnd snw that j new machine today, nnd It's astonish rug tho fine work It does." "How docs It work?" I Inquired. "Well," snld James, "by means of n pedal attachment, u fulcrumed lever converts a ertlenl reciprocating motion mo-tion Into n circular movement. Thu "principal part of tho machine Is a huge disk that revolves In a ertlcal plane. Power Is applied through the nxls of the disk, nnd when the speed of the drl lug urbor Is moderate, Oie periphery of tho apparatus Is traveling nt n high velocity. Work Is done on this perlph cry. I'leces of tho hardest steel ate by mere Impact reducid to any 6hapo tho skillful operator desires." "What in tho name of sense is that mnchtuo, anyway?" demanded Tom Brlggs. "Oh, It's a now grindstone," replied JnmcR, nnd a silence that could bo cut with a knife fell upon the crowd. |