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Title: The Locomotive
Year: 1867 (1860s)
Authors: Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company
Subjects: Locomotives Steam-boiler explosions
Publisher: Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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a few expressions of opinion con-cerning it: It will prove invaluable. — Commercial Bulletin. The best history of the system that we have seen. — Scientific American. It should serve a very useful purpose. — AmcricaJi Machinist. One of the most valuable publications of the kind yet given to the public.— American Wool and Cotton Reporter. The most striking features of the tables are simplicity of arrangement andclearness of type. — Electrical World. Of the many metric conversion tables issued, this is by far the best andmost convenient. — Engineering News. It is an excellent thing, in admirable form.* — Prof. R. H. Thurston. It is a little jewel. — Judge Thomas Ufdegroff. igoS.) THE LOCOMOTIVE 19 8§k# Xtttuttt A. D. Risteen, Ph.D., Editor. HARTFORD, JANUARY 25. 1908. The Locomotive can be obtained free by calling at any of the companys agencies.Subscription price 30 cents per year when mailed from this office.Bound volumes one dollar each. (Any volume can be supplied.)
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Mr. Charles S. Blake. 20 THE LOCOMOTIVE. (January, Mr. Charles S. Blake. On November 18. 1907, Mr. Charles Spafford Blake, whose portraitwe present in this issue, was elected Secretary of the Hartford SteamBoiler Inspection and Insurance Company. In deference to the new in-cumbents sense of modesty and propriety, we are merely recording thefact of the appointment, together with some few biographical detailswhich may serve to introduce Mr. Blake to our patrons, and to such of ouremployes as have not had an opportunity of meeting with him in person. Mr. Blake has had a wide range of experience in the practical en-gineering field, as well as in the different branches of boiler insurance.Born at Windsor Locks, Connecticut, on October 25, i860, he inheriteda tendency towards mechanics from his father, the late Captain JohnW. Blake, who had served as mechanical expert for the United States Gov-ernment at the Springfield Armory, and who was also in the South AtlanticSquadron during the Civil

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