New-York tribune., 1910-10-23
His Latest TriumpbS' Are an Air Spring. a
Geored 0urbine DrfOe. and Another De-
x,icc That Con'f Ex'en BE Mentioned yek.2

He IL a tall. strongly built. active. ques
man who looks what he IL. a man OF power.
But he is as modest as he is strong. never
on parade. There, In the valley where va
were standing. are literally miles Of msnu-
featuring floor space. thousands and tho1-
sands OF vorkmen, millions. perhaps hun-
dred millions. OF capital employed-and an
because bis creative power called these
men and moneys and other forces togethers
because he built. organized "a well as In
vented There IS no magic In 10. unless ths
character and force Of great man bs
magical
But how do you nean-Operating ths
ships engines from the bridge? Do yo,s
mean directing by sisnals?' I asked.
mo. Actually operating by direct con-
troll" he replied
The mighty motor Of the turbine was re-
vo1vtng at fifteen hundred turns minute.
the propeller shaft. geared down, was turn
ing three hundred times a minute. Tiers
had been no waiting for the expansion os
metal. In something less than half a MN
ute after the steam had been turned on. ths
turbine. which had been standing cold. waS
running at full speed. and was presently
showing 10.Oo-horsepOwer az the testing
brake.
MIR. Westinghouse said Ia reply u a qGes-
ton: mo preliminary warning up IS re-
auired. But on the turbine ships now afoas
MANY hours are required 70 warm up the
turbines before il IS safe 20 start them
And DAYS are required 20 open Up, examine,
recIose and restart them We do all thas
with this installation inside OF an hour.
We have done IL repeatedly IN three
quarters Of an hour. 20 The surprise Of v1sitf
ing engineers
I remarked that there was little for =
spActator 10 see In the way OF operation, as
the whole turbine and gear were encased-
..of course" said he. "but il you would Ike
10 see a model Of this installation I VIII
show il TO you 10 Is just being finished"
IN HIS OWN WORKSHOP.
So upstairs we went again. away or 70
the western end OF the works. where on an
upper floor Mr.. Westinghouse maintains
laboratory or workshop OF his own Here.
you might say. his ideas first take snapa
in material form. Here. from his nrs7
studies on any new problem which he may
attack the drawings are made Here IA
spends some time every day going over
drawings and giving his craftsmen new M
structfons- And here the lathes and other
initial forms
A new invention was az the nnonenc
undergoing It's first tests there. but as M
mention OF IL Is permissible at this tina
the present chronicler must content hinseit
with saying that IL was instructive 10 ses
this busy man. vho had arrived rom tns
East that morning on his private car, puls
nm his sleeves and handle the valves whila
oil and air and fame spUrted about
Well, he showed me the model OF tna
n1arine-geared turbine, in aluminium and
brass. II looked like a good sized toy and
was made with a watchmakers hnenesss
Mr.. WESTINGHOUSE seemed 90 be as mucH
interested in it as If 1t were one OF ths
monster machines downstairs An Inspec]
ton of the model made II easy 20 under-
stand the points he was talking about
But perhaps the points themselves are too
technical TO interest the general readers
They all summed UP into economy or Opert
alton and maintenance. the enlargement o1
the radius OF a ships action. the saving OF
hundreds Of tons OF weight and thousands
Of cubic feet OF space