I mentioned this to the old man, who replied impatiently: “O, that aint nothin, the engine is the wonder, that’s the wonder; why, when I was a young man we did not suppose an engine could be run more’n about fifty or sixty turns a minute, nobody never thought o’ such a thing; now we can run ’em any speed we like, no poundin, no shakin, no heatin, it’s just wonderful.” I did not respond or show any interest, and the old man did not waste any more enthusiasm on me. Did not say a word when I left directly after, but I fancied him saying to himself: “Another o’ them stuck ups, that don’t know nothin’.”
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Page 137, bill for American belt: there are some errors in the calculations, these have not been corrected.
Page 147, paragraph starting The day after the opening ...: the single and double quote marks do not match.
Page 155, ... exposition of the action of the reciprocating parts was given Mr. Edwin Reynolds ...: should possibly read ... exposition of the action of the reciprocating parts was given by Mr. Edwin Reynolds ....
Page 202, ... half the distance to the mid-stroke or to E, Fig. 32, ...: presumably this refers to the figure on page 201; there is no figure 32 in the book.