articles in the current issue

1. Our "What the Heck Is It?" contest. Here's a new one for you. The last one was somewhat of a challenge. This one may be a little more challenging!

2. The Levavasseur Toroidal Whistle. Whistle researcher Peter Ommundsen shows you a very simple, interesting and powerful whistle of a rather unconventional design. It would be interesting to see one of these, and hear it too, but the latter from a distance.

3. The Marketplace: What's been happening in the signal device selling community? Intrepid H&W market guru EAF tells you this important information.

4. Electric motors of the Steam Whistle Era. Finally, this article, or at least part one, is ready. What makes electric motors work? What else do motors do besides run things? Why are some motors like the farmer's mule that follows the carrot tied to a string? How does three phase power develop rotation? All this and more are here. And in the following issue, we'll look at single phase AC motors as well.

5. Repairing Stuck Whistle Bells. If you have a plain whistle and the bell is stuck to the stem so that you can't adjust the whistle for the available steam pressure, you need to read this article as H&W Editor-in-chief Harry Barry describes his repair to a hopelessly stuck whistle.

6. The Horn Doctor. Even the horn doctor once in a while runs into an unsolvable problem. Read about these here and what he learned from these adventures, things that have made him so good at what he does.

7. The Cincinnati Brass Works' 1887 Catalog. Here's an interesting look at the predecessor of the Lunkenheimer company's 1887 whistle offerings. HWEG member Gene Brady generously shares this information with us.

8. Diaphone Dimensions. You've read about these specialty horns in H&W before. Perhaps you've seen a Gamewell diaphone way up on a roof or a tower on a fire station somewhere. Here we show you a comprehensive chart with the dimensions of the various diaphones, from the tiny type A to the biggest foghorns. More information about these most unusual and interesting signals.

And there's more..... So check us out! A subscription to this quarterly journal is only $18.00* per year. In addition to articles about signal devices, we also feature visits to interesting steam plants and other industrial facilities. Related technologies to the horn and whistle field as well as railroading and marine applications also appear frequently in our pages.