The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 86

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Excerpt from The Journal of the Franklin Institute, Vol. 86: Devoted to Science and the Mechanic Arts, July December, 1868Such an accident or malicious perversity of events, with a young engineer, whose reputation was in the future, might have been serious (thanks to the general tendency to consider that all which goes right is by chance, and all that goes awry is somebody's but with Mr. Latrobe, it is simply a good joke, which no doubt his friends have not failed to enjoy. With the improved machines, however, the work has progressed famously, and in face of a progress at the East Heading during the previous year of about 590 feet, has to show 1277 feet of actual advance, notwithstanding a heavy drawback from unusual deficiencies in the supply of water power, by which the compressed air was furnished to the machines.In connection with this improvement in the drilling machines, we will quote a remark of much importance, when its relations are understood, which occurs in Mr. Latrobe's report, p. 31. After describing the improvement in the Burleigh drill, he remarks.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.