Re: Murphy ends continued
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Schuyler Larrabee
I am amazed to learn that there actually WAS a Murphy! Thanks, Al, for explaining this.
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So we should all now be careful to use the term Murphy, as opposed to murphy. SGL It was named for Peter Murphy the patent holder and later President of Standard Railway Equipment. I believe those records are now at Northwestern U's trans library. Pullman-Standard even tried to copy one his designs and got caught in the courts. Al Kresse ----- Original Message -----
From: tgregmrtn@... <mailto:tgregmrtn%40aol.com> To: STMFC@... <mailto:STMFC%40yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2011 9:18:58 PM Subject: Re: [STMFC] Re: Murphy ends continued Heavens to Murphy... Like that term? <g> Greg Martin Eventually all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. Norman Maclean Tony writes: As anyone knows who has perused Cyclopedias, the term "Murphy" is not very specific for anything. It was used by Standard Railway Equipment to denote a whole slew of roof designs, some quite different from each other, as well as a couple of different end designs. As far as Richard Hendrickson and I have ever been able to determine, the term refers back to an invention of interlocking metal parts which made the combination water-tight, or approximately so. Thus the term could be applied to any component which employed that arrangement. One supposes that "Murphy" refers to the inventor, rather than to the well-known "Murphy's Law." <g> If someone on the list knows more, I'd like to hear it. Tony Thompson Editor, Signature Press, Berkeley, CA 2906 Forest Ave., Berkeley, CA 94705 www.signaturepress.com (510) 540-6538; fax, (510) 540-1937; e-mail, _thompson@... <mailto:_thompson%40signaturepress.com> _ (mailto:thompson@... <mailto:thompson%40signaturepress.com> ) Publishers of books on railroad history [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.17000) http://www.pctools.com <http://www.pctools.com/?cclick=EmailFooterClean_51> ======= ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.18, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.17000) http://www.pctools.com/ ======= |
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