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En Garde, whole no. 17.5, 1946
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page 3. 'It would be like the projectile of a dynamic gun, and have wheels all round so as to reduce the friction to the smallest possible degree. The seats would be arranged so that the passengers would sit tandem---or they might lie down' 'You say a speed of one thousand miles an hour could be attained!' 'Yes. That is as fast as the rate at which the earth turns on its axis.' 'Then would not that result in your projectile coming to a dead stop if it moved in a direction contrary to the earth's revolution?' 'Well--I--ah--yes, certainly it looks like that: but that'll be all right.' 'Would this way of travelling be safe?' 'Precautions will be taken to secure its safety. There might be some danger of the conveyance or projectile going off at a tangent when it reached the end of the tube; but it will be shot right up a grooved incline, and slow up and stop. But before anyone goes through I'll make trial trips with dogs and such, and if they come out I'll venture the passage myself. No one will make it till I have first done so'." -----The Golden Argosy, Oct. 15, 1887. ((A brave and imaginative inventor! But apparently the dirty financiers failed to finance him, and the scientific men were too staggered to figure out the details for him. Such is the usual fate of "genius"!)) "SHIRTS BY MAIL. Perfect fitting White Dress Shirts for 60 cents, unlaundried, or 75 cents, laundried, postpaid." -----The Golden Argosy, Oct. 15, 1887. (Adv) ((There you are. We were born sixty years too late!)) "A NEW TOY! The Cutest thing for a Whistle ever invented. Blow in the mouth-piece and a high-bred Shanghai Rooster pops up his head and crows, and then drops down out of sight." -----The Golden Argosy, Oct. 15, 1887 (Adv) ((Wonder if he wears red pants!)) "Railroad accidents appear to increase in frequency and horror with each succeeding year. Among the recent railway inventions which have attracted special attention, is what is termed the anchor brake, to be used in cases of emergency. The plan involved in this case is that of having an anchor drop from the rear end of a train and engage with the ties. By having a good long spring to ease the chock when the anchor came to a bearing, a train might easily be brought to a stop within fifteen or twenty feet from an ordinary passenger speed, if something did not give way." -----The Golden Argosy, Nov. 12, 1887. ((Fling out the anchor, brakeman, yon bridge is washed out!))
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page 3. 'It would be like the projectile of a dynamic gun, and have wheels all round so as to reduce the friction to the smallest possible degree. The seats would be arranged so that the passengers would sit tandem---or they might lie down' 'You say a speed of one thousand miles an hour could be attained!' 'Yes. That is as fast as the rate at which the earth turns on its axis.' 'Then would not that result in your projectile coming to a dead stop if it moved in a direction contrary to the earth's revolution?' 'Well--I--ah--yes, certainly it looks like that: but that'll be all right.' 'Would this way of travelling be safe?' 'Precautions will be taken to secure its safety. There might be some danger of the conveyance or projectile going off at a tangent when it reached the end of the tube; but it will be shot right up a grooved incline, and slow up and stop. But before anyone goes through I'll make trial trips with dogs and such, and if they come out I'll venture the passage myself. No one will make it till I have first done so'." -----The Golden Argosy, Oct. 15, 1887. ((A brave and imaginative inventor! But apparently the dirty financiers failed to finance him, and the scientific men were too staggered to figure out the details for him. Such is the usual fate of "genius"!)) "SHIRTS BY MAIL. Perfect fitting White Dress Shirts for 60 cents, unlaundried, or 75 cents, laundried, postpaid." -----The Golden Argosy, Oct. 15, 1887. (Adv) ((There you are. We were born sixty years too late!)) "A NEW TOY! The Cutest thing for a Whistle ever invented. Blow in the mouth-piece and a high-bred Shanghai Rooster pops up his head and crows, and then drops down out of sight." -----The Golden Argosy, Oct. 15, 1887 (Adv) ((Wonder if he wears red pants!)) "Railroad accidents appear to increase in frequency and horror with each succeeding year. Among the recent railway inventions which have attracted special attention, is what is termed the anchor brake, to be used in cases of emergency. The plan involved in this case is that of having an anchor drop from the rear end of a train and engage with the ties. By having a good long spring to ease the chock when the anchor came to a bearing, a train might easily be brought to a stop within fifteen or twenty feet from an ordinary passenger speed, if something did not give way." -----The Golden Argosy, Nov. 12, 1887. ((Fling out the anchor, brakeman, yon bridge is washed out!))
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