The Franklin institute school of mechanic arts: Annual report of the director of the school

✍ Scribed by Wm.H. Thorne

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1915
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 144 KB
• Volume: 179
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/s0016-0032(15)91007-4

✦ Synopsis

Additions to membership since last report, 6. Mr. George H. Clamer, Chairman of the Committee on Science and the Arts, reported the condition of the committee's work.

Mr. W. S. Bartholomew, President, Locomotive Stoker Company, Schenectady, N. Y., presented a communication on " Mechanical Stoking of Locomotives." The speaker described various types of stokers, and particularly those which are now being used. The economic value of the mechanical stoker and its effect upon the labor problem were considered, as well as the benefits received by the railroad company, especially in the elimination of the physical limit set by the firemen upon the capacity of a large locomotive, which, when mechanicaUy fired, can evaporate all of the water the injectors are able to deliver to its boiler. The effect of the use of mechanically-fired locomotives upon the movement of traffic under present operating conditions was also shown. The subject was illustrated by numerous lantern slides.

In the discussion which followed the reading of the paper, Messrs.