Cassier's magazine (1904) (14745858136)

Identifier: cassiersmagazi2719041newy (find matches)
Title: Cassier's magazine
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Engineering
Publisher: New York Cassier Magazine Co.
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ense ought to discourage,and that there are some foolhardy per-sons willing to operate them at the riskof their own as well as other peopleslives. Of course, we are told that auto-mobile racing affords the right kind ofstimulus to good automobile building,that it shows what the weak points are in the machines which break down, andthat from such breakdowns good lessonsare to be learned; but when it is bornein mind that in a race like this latestone there was not a single machine ofcommercial type, it would seem a wasteof time to speculate as to the value ofthe results. A freak racing automobileaffords very little basis for profitablestudy. It matters little, except in theinterests of sport alone, that such a ma-chine can be run at 70 or 80 miles anhour; indeed, there is nothing very re-markable about it. It means an over-powered machine, a fairly good road,and a madcap driver, and in some casesa serious accident before the run isended. Ordinary automobiles in regu- 74 CASSIERS MAGAZINE
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LAUNCHING THE BATTLESHIP NEBRASKA, OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY, AT THE YARD OFMORAN BROTHERS, AT SEATTLE, WASHINGTON COPYRIGHTED BY GEORGE P. PITKIN CURRENT TOPICS 75 lar service,—business or pleasure serv-ice,—do more to develop good auto-mobile engineering experience than anynumber of such wild races. Lastmonths contest is said to have shownthat the really weak points in all themachines in the race were the tires; butas nails and broken bottles were alsosaid to have been plentifully scatteredover the road at some places by ill-dis-posed persons, thus creating abnormalconditions, the tires clearly would seemnot to have had a fair chance. Warship launching has been a con-spicuous feature of American happen-ings during the past few weeks, threebattleships and one gunboat havinggone into the water in as many differentyards. The battleships are the Con-necticut y of 16,000 tons displacement,built at the New York, or, as it is famil-iarly known, the Brooklyn Navy Yard,and launched on Se