The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy Volume 31; Discourses Delivered Before the Royal Society. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry, PT. I (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: ... Chicago, are having a sample car built by the Illinois Car & Equipment Company, which will be used for exhibition purposes. The car will be equipped with the following specialties: Chicago roof. Westlnghouse air brake, Monarch draft rigging, Bettendorf body bolster, Kindl truck, A. French springs, Monarch brakebearns, Springer safety coupler, Brown journal boxes, National journal bearings furnished by the National Railway Specialty Company, Corning brakeshoes, Security door fixtures. Star grain door, Bass Foundry & Machine Company's wheels, Devoe & Reynolds paint. The Curtain Supply Company, 85-93 Ohio street, Chicago, have Issued a new catalogue descriptive of all kinds of curtains and curtain fixtures for passenger car equipment. The Curtain Supply Company, as now constituted, represent the consolidation of the curtain and curtain fixture departments of the Adams & Westlake Company, the E. T. Burrowes Company. Forsyth Bros. Company and the Davis Car Shade Company. The purchase of the machinery, good-will, merchandise and patents of all these concerns enables the Curtain Supply Company to furnish any kind of curtain or curtain fixture entirely free from danger of patent litigation, which has in the past to such a marked degree characterized this business. Vaile & Young of Baltimore, Md., report a steadily growing demand for their patent metal frame skylights which they have been manufacturing for nearly twenty years, and which are well known In this and other countries. Many railroads have repeated their orders with them as new buildings are being added to their plants. Among orders lately filled are the skylights on the new shops of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad at Paris, Tenn., and the skylight of their new terminal station...