Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1899 — Wonders of the Locomotive. [ARTICLE]

Wonders of the Locomotive.

The story of tike locomotive sounds simple in the recital. The wonder of the thing comes Into view only when one reflects on the speed and nicety with which lumbroua parts are made to do their duty. The piston and connecting bar of a modern locomotive weigh some 000 pounds. When the speed 1s sixty miles an hour these parts travel back and forth five times a second. Ten times a second, at the end of every stroke, the piston head is at rest. It must pass from this condition to a velocity of 1,800 feet per minute in onetwentieth of- a second. The drivewheels measure more than a rod at every revolution, but when going sixty miles an hour they must turn more than .300 times a minute.—Ainslie’s Magazine.