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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi

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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (51746)6/3/2000 9:57:00 PM
From: Gauguin  Read Replies (2) of 71178
 
Conrods, for connecting rod. That was the part we worked on, on the Bicentennial train.
That's a very clever formula thought there, Lather.

I looked at the tractive ratio formula too.

Unfortunately, (and I mean that most sincerely), I gotta go.

An encyclopedia with the early patents probably has our summation.

It was not Franklin, who mayhaps only proposed it; it was someone else I have in my marks.

I'll see if I can find it real qwik.

If you scan down this list of patents, you will see rail wheel at least once.

ipmall.fplc.edu

AND, at this address, a man who made a fortune on rail wheels:

whitneygen.org

"In 1848 be invented a process for annealing car wheels, that increased both their speed and capacity. This invention gained him a fortune and about 75,000 car wheels were annually manufactured by A. Whitney & Sons."
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