Re: ATM Ritchey photos

["Matt Considine" <matt@considine.net>]

Out of curiosity, has anyone ever read any of the original "English 
Mechanic" articles?  I've looked on the 'net but (not surprisingly) 
cannot find anything digitized.  Any idea where they can be found? 
 IIRC, these are the articles that inspired Porter/Ingalls, no?

One of the things I enjoy most is the train of thought that some old 
articles inspire.  They may be dead-ends, but it does seem to help 
one "think outside the box."  Too bad there isn't a comprehensive 
bibliography of "old stuff."

Regards,
Matt

PS  FYI, The Smithsonian will make a copy of this Ritchey article for 
$0.20 per page.  It's 68pp in total (including plates, presumably).


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> The main point that can come out of this is that there is a very large
> amount of articles & books written about ATM from years gone by.  Just a
> guess -- but maybe 40 books and a couple of hundred articles could be found
> by searching on line library catalogs & periodical indices.  A lot of it
> would not be relevant, a lot of it would be wrong, but there is also a huge
> amount of good information.  Unfortunately, it takes a very long time to
> track it down & filter through it.