The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1868-08-11 00:00:00

SEWING MACHINES,.

rriftz manner in which the decisions'. were
made at the Gra.id Tliai of flo•ing Machines,
held at Leland Park, New York, in 1865, distinguishes
It as the only trial ever held in which the verdict
depended, beyond all doubt, solely upon the capabilities
of the competing machines.

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The udgea were peculiarly competent, two of them
being engineers, and one • collar manufacturer, one of
the engineer, and the manufacturer being also sewing
machine experts_ They tested the competing machines
In respect to each of all the items that together con-
stitute the efficiency and utility of • sewing machine,
making immechate award of inponority in rapist to sank
Item, In the presence Of a large coneourii of spectators
to the trial.

The character of the taste employed ia exhibited in
the repo' t from which we quote :

"In regard to the decisions of the judges upon the
'actual points, it may be retnaked that during the
entire trial there was scarcely an instance of difference
of opinion—as, indevd, it was hardly possible there
could be, for the plan adopted wee itself • surety both
of unanimity and • just decision ; the latter being, in
such • plan, neither more nor less than the practical
solution of a mathematical problem. For, by separat-
log the reispeetivs merits of each machine into elements,
or "points." and aulAroting each point separately to
the test of practical work done on each madame in
presence of the judges, their decision upon each point
wss reduced to the simple act of recording the facts
developed.

"For iostance.: each contestant claims the most
elastic stitch. Then each is required to sew a seam,
aide by side, on the bias of a piece of elastic cloth ;
and the judge takes the piece and stretches it length.
ways of the seam., till one seem break.; he still con-
tinues the stretching, bet the other imam refusal to
break at all. However disappointed his expectations,
the judge will hardly enter on therecord that the brake*
seam le the more elastic.

'Such were the tests, and such the inevitable de-
liSiolll."

After a contest of nearly seven boom the Willcox
and Gibbs wu declared to be the best Sewing Machine.
The importanoe of this trial to the public is doe to
the facts that the questions decided were such as admit
of absolute determination, and that the decisions were
approved be a multitude of disinterested witneseee.

The following is a summar7 of the decisions in favour
of the Winncox and GIB= :-
1. II is the simplest.
2. It is the least liable to get out of order.
3. It is the best made machine.
4. It is the cheapest.
5. It is strictly priceless.
6. It works the essimt.
7. It works the fastest.
8. It cannot be turned backward.
9. It requires the least mechanical skill to operate it.
10. It requires the least time and instruction to learn
to use it.
11. It is the most certain and reliable in operation.

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