...With the Men Who Do Things

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...With the Men Who Do Things
A Russell Alexander Russell Bond
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"'New scheme. Going to try it out for the first time this morning. We used to bolt the shore ends of the sliding ways to the ground ways, and then when the signal came, we would saw through the sliding ways just beyond the bolted part until they broke off with a bang. Then down Digitized by VjOOQIC i8o With the Men Who Do Things.
would go the ship (Figure i8 shows where the ways were cut) If she stuck we would give her a shove with a pair of hydraulic jacks. This time we are using a heavy steel
... trigger, like this" — and he made a rapid pencil sketch sim- ilar to Figure 20. "The steel trigger is pivoted in the ground ways and hooks against a cap on the sliding ways to keep them from sliding. The trigger is held out by a hydraulic piston. Glycerine is used in the cylinder to force Fia 20. THE HYDKAUUC LAUNCHING TRIGGER.
the piston out. So you see it is the glycerine that keeps the boat from sliding down the ways. When the signal comes, somebody will turn a valve to let the trigger out and then the piston will slide into its cylinder and the trigger will let go of the sliding ways and off will go the ship." I was jotting down all this information and as soon as I had the complete story, I rushed off to telephone it to the 'g Sphere.


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