Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — Train Calculations. [ARTICLE]

Train Calculations.

Fast train calculations are the favorite pastimes with those who are mathematioally inclined nowadays. It has been figured, for instance, that the force of propulsion which a train of four oars with a sixty-ton locomotive, running at fifty miles an hour, develops, is equivalent to a blow delivered by a hammer weighing 50.000 tons, and that is almost exactly the force of the blow of the ram upon the Camperdowu as estimated when that warship struck the Victoria:—[Detroit Free Press.