Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-06-10
VOL. We. so

RAPID lMPRovEMNT IN LOCOMOTIVE Ma
cHiNERY IN TIE UNITED SrATEs-We
find the following inlere sting article Oh this
subject in the New York Herald.
The great and rapid advance that is dali
ly taking place in The building and speed
oil locomotives in the Unidcd States, is n
subject which is attracting the attention oil
the scientific minds of he day and from
the daily accounts we hear Of American
engines abroad,it certainly presens most
favorable p cture of the genius and knowl-
edge on this subject, that is developed in
this land 1t is now little more than fifteen
years since the first application OF steam
power, 10 the purpose OF railroads was tri-
ed; ard, since that time, tie immense cabin
Of road that has been cons,ru,,ed in this
country and in Europe, must fully amounI
10 ten thousand miles; and 10 supply this
long track, there are over one thousand
locomotive engines employed, which, icr
powers of draught, and ca pa billies of speed,
are unrivailed in the word.
Among other facts that have been rcla
ted TO Us on this subject, we may stale The
lollowing:-
The locomotive steam engine. Atlantic,
constructed by Norris, Brothers, Of Phla.
d~lphia, drew a train Of l55 iron coal cars
over the Philadelphia and Reading Rail
road; on Saturday, the Sd inst, weighing
in all, cars and coal, 1865 tons. This
would have been deemed impossible oay
n year or two since. and it is stated that tho
same engine could, with perfect ease to it.
self, have di avn at least twenty more cars
The engine, with Il train Of l55 cars, 1920
feet in length, was stated with perfect ease,
without any strain, several time ;, on a lev
ell, turning curVs Of 70) feet radius with
The most pcrlec, facility, md making The
run, from Schuykill Haven to the Falls.
81 miles, in eight ho1rs, three m nules.-
The engine, with wood and wafer, weighs
Il $40 tons only;. making it, beyond all
doubt. the CRATES, performance ever made.
The engine is peculiar in lis construction,
and differs entirely from any other make
The six combined drivers, OF for;y-sx inch
diameter, are arranged in flexible vbrat-
ing truck, detached from the main frame,
which, while it in iures perfect equaliza-
ton Of TIE whole weight, when pulling.
adapts itself is an astonishing manner 10
any inequality in the track, reducing lric-
ton in n great degree, which has no: here
tolore been accomplished by any othe plan.
1t is not only a, home that American
engine, are unrivalIed: bu, in the older
countries, where, from the great attention
that has been paid to this SUBJECT, we might
be led TO expect more perfect arrang-
ment of il. In these countries, American
genius aud enterprise has prevriIel, and Is
rapidly passing them on their own ground,
by supplying them with American MANI
featured engines that far surpass their own.
The Messrs. Norris, of Philadelphia, to
whom we have referred before in this ar
,cle, have supplied large numbers 10 the
continent Of Europe and Eng land, and have
acquired great celebrity in.,heir mrnu
features. They have already sent twenty
engines to Aus ria. and thrty.six more (or
the same country are now on .her way 10
Trieste. Thirtytwo Of their make have
gone to Prussia, seventeen have been SEM
10 England, five TO Stuttgart, two 20 France
and two TO Italy. These operations Of ;
single house prove that the celebrity O
American made locomotive abroao is faI
from being insignificant, and when we con
/ slider the number of establishments Of The
kind in the United States. we may antici
pate with certainty tina! the time is noI (ai
distant hen American genius will carry
off the palm from all foreign competitors