Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-01-21
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Invention. Our own ina gina ion has been NOR. INN
.sea oy the recent trial at Liverpool of the Loeono-
noe Carriages, than by the march of the Ru.
over The Balkan, or the cspituia,ion Of The Sublime
Porte The TALL OF decr-pid empire or the subs,iu
ton OF masters for certain tracts of Europe or A.ia
may be deemed ini when compared with the
probable results oil the marvellous cton of tim.
AMI Space and the increased facility and the
intercourse Of enlightened mind pc business
by which every real object OF human oyment and
welfare mist be intellectually promoted. We have be-
fore u.s. in the Liverpool Mechanics MAgAzine an en-.
CRAVING oil The Novelty the steam carriage that flew
Al The rate OF nearly two miles in three minues' a.
smoothly as skater ON the snoothcst ice A simpl.
inspection at once satisfies the enquirer that il ba, rot
oecn eXtravagAnty extoed fsr il, singular Zig htne.,
cnmpactne's and elegance. All the engines of t, kind
before constructed required separate tender to carry
me water "ni fuel necessary for their operations, bu,
this includes within itself every necessary comola-
ton, aud IL nevertheless much lighter than any .nsin.
on ITO old plan The reduction in weight is pronounc-
ed TO no IF great advantage; yet even in the Vovey
inc unit mas not been reached beyond which there
nothing TO be gAined by lvssenng the weight.
From tho Liverpool Times, Oct %
" THE TRlUMPHS OF SCIENCE ANDART"
hether ne caricature' which represent s'ean
engine as flying ike balloon throush the air. shall!
ever become any thing than a caricaturc NAV he
doubted; but such have been the achievement. oi
science and art within the last three quarters f con
nry, that is really 'ut 10 ii any limits to their
iu,ure conqussts. To justify us in psonouncing any
thing impossible in machines, it sh to be in oppo.
ton to some law of nature, and not merely ourinc
an immense extent or difficult application of power -
And so marvellous have been the inventions and dis
coveries in every branch of science and in all the or
since the beginning cf the last reign that il thew had
been predicted in the yaar 1860, men would have
though: the prophecy deserved rank with the Ara
ban story Of the erection OF Aladdins palace in sin.
gle night
When the pack horse with his bell wa. III, ou,v
me ans oil conveying merchandise through the land
ana when The carrier conducted his Suing OF horse.
along tracts always made to Iass over The sum
init OF the very highest hills Tie vision of a modern
mail coach slancng through valleys on road.
~ as stnOOh and level A bOwn ~ ,rd
ing ODDS ana passengers at the IF clever or twelve
miles an hour would have been arded a. the work
OF some superuN'ura beings not clccg-d with the an
Gun brance 81 mortal clay. who should then
have i'm tgined that distance OF four hundred miles
could have been peformedLy carriage in forty hours
without difficulty, danger, would have been ihonyb
worthy oil place amongst the philosophers of La.
puta.
g spinner at his wheel, twisting and twirnr ,he
Vs-iohg uay'o make some pary hanks of yarn, would
have gazed at the interior Of modern spinning mill
where Thousands of spindIes whried with incred
Die velocity, moved by no power v,ibe the spccta
tor with asuperstous conviction that the whole was
| the work oil unhlcssed powers To tell him tina, the
iorce which moved the mighty apparatus Of the factory
was earthly yet that il wa. neither th. force Of men
nor horses neither the strength of torrent nor the
piping wiRds OF heaven, hut nothing more nor les.
man me steam OF boiling water, would only have eS
eiten M indignation at the holiness OF the inposturs
which II was attempted to palm upon him.
$40 show TO one ,f IL .'e disorderly persons who
return from taverns at er the hour Of curiew and mo
oil old were wont 10 grope through the Egyptian dark
Hess vi sNeetS 10 thelr houses the
iIhuiha'ed streets oil London Liverpool, he weud
be linded with excess Of light and fancy himself in
me nan oil Pandemoniun, LII up shy subtitle magic" m
blazing cressets OF nsptha and asphaos. II he could
under'tnd that these brilliant Of light proceeded
from an invisible vapour which circulated for mile. nm.
der The streets, he would be only the more rf,cty
convinced that he had gone prematurey into the ow
world.
Since the invention Of printing be power Of man
TO disseminate knowledge has been increased almns,
beyond ejaculation Even within the last so years a
prodlgious augm -n,aon has taken place i'm tn, nower
B'iore the Improvement of Earl S anhope from three
to four hundred sheets night be printed per hour al
the press; but the steam press which now works the
Times paper prints four ihsusand sheet. an hour
or more than sheet per second IL may be easily
proved, that 10 write by hand the number Of new.pa.
Pers circulated by the Times daily, would require a
m''on aha D. u scribe':-yet they are printed with
ease ty about two dozen men. Such il the effect OF a
skiliG division of labor t,t debate Of ei,h, or len
hours duration in The House OF Commons NAV be fI
~ and ably ported printed and published 20 as to be
read in London within three four hours al er s lei
nina ion. AMI at sixty miles distance from the Metro
polls be fore hs speakers OF the prsviou. night have
! arisen ION their beds.
10 navigation, as in printing. nven ton slunbered
Tor centuries, and then suddenly awoke in the won.
drons sieam-vessel Scam navigation is probabIv v.
In ITS infancy yot II has already effected an a.onsb
ing tension OF Intercourse between all parts Of the
Bi'h Isles, the widIy separated towns and terrorie.
Of the Unied States, and several Of the countries al
Europe. ii was not uncommon dozen years age Ia
wait in this port for several days and weeks before
W i'tIdnu, anu often have vessels
been detained in The channel days an wen weeks nv
calms or adverse winds. BY the steam packet, we
pass easily and with certainty in a single night from
Liverpool to Dublin and they operate az bridges con.
nsct rg tire sister Island with T. gland Gains ia M,
retard their Sht the waves; adverse tiJes and
winds tbOthey somewhat impede. cannot are.t their
progress. lnnct with power, ''hey walk the wafer.
like thing oil life. by their aid III, VOYAGE 10 ndi,
win probably be made, many more wears have
p'ed,'cafcey more formidable ilng than Journey
from London to Scotland was century ago
! Such few OF the more striking nyen ions and
improvements Of mod,rn times Yet invention is moi
exhausted. These seem 10 be bWt the commencement
OF an end'ess series, and The late experiments of Lo
comotve Carriages en- our Railway give us quite 4
new idea OF what science and m " vet DO 10 auck
Ell TIC transport Of traYeers and goods through the
land. Though the idea Of moving carriage by a me.
chanicol power within IL, is not absolutely new vet II
has never been successfully reduced 10 practice
III our day animate power, applied externally or in
iernally, has always been used for purposes of lo
motion. To place steam engine on wheels and ia
make IL move both i'seIf aud an additional weight was
bold conception: The Fl ST essays were clumsy and
unpror is'ng, and even up to The present time a ma
cline that has been seen in eraion which was oacu
I'D Tor tie i2pd conveyance either Of passengers OF
comu odies.
The pei formances Of The Rocket and the .Nopeiil
give sudden spur 10 dtowsV tina gina'ion. snt
make orr idea n f,st rs the machines them elves
These engines with all their apparatus kim over tn.
carh ~ than double the sreed Of the highest and
fastest mail, drawn by the swest blood horses and
driven by the most deperdie coacinan, Tie smooth
i est roads n England Upic0rds of thirty mites pa
hourl LIT ~ ste-at This rate We rta,h Mancbrsfe
in an hour, Birmingham in three hours Londcn Elm
/, bvroh GLASGOW m six hour n,sv oil