The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-11-06
YAzOO DEMO Graf
TERMS OF THE xAzoo DEMOCRAT,
Elect O. Magnetism as a motlv pow
LIE LNF0NTANr ouE.TLuN .ErrLnp.

THE IMPORTANT QUESTION SETTLED.
Pr"teSs"r Page, ia the lrclures which he
j. unw delivering beiord tn Sn,th oman
lds'Iut'"n, states that there is no luugel
any douh nlInr application al this power "a,
a substitute 10, ste IA. lie exhibited tue
IN st imposing experiments ever witnessed
~ this branch at scIpuce. An immens.
pare iron, weighing nnr hun lred anu ski,
pounds was made To sprung up 10y magnetic
acIihu' ana TO move up and down, daucIng
liz ieathrr ia the air, without any visible
support. Inc force operating On thI, bar he
stated To average three hundred pound,
through ten incnrs ut It's mollpn. lie SAID
he could RAISE this bar one hundred feet a,
Tra@Hy IA through ten inches, aud he eGpec,
led a. d'IlcutJ IN DONG the sam. with d
% weighing one ten, &c hundred ON,
IL could make pile driver, or d i1rg4-n4 IL
~ With great simplicity, and could max
AZ engine wlth stroke Ut six, Iw-ivr,
tw'Hy og aIy nunper ol feet.
lac IN s, n'dutuIi experiment W evrI
wuurs,ed was The loud sound aud bri.iIan
il'-u ir"in the gal, a ,Ic spark, when prudu
4 near certain point ~ his great ma
nrt. l. 1-n snap was as l1di as a piston; AM
WI II ur Pgpdu I'd ;h' SAN >ra'k 1t u int.
distance t,on THIS punt Il made no noise at
al. Fms receu, discovery lac stated to maze
a practical brauHg up1u tne cpnslruc,Ion III
Az r,ecitO. magnetic ruglur. T,ul.a greai
power Is acre, anI where l. tue ltnrt to It!
,nen eAh pdrd Ms engine, ui between
i'"s ana h'a horse p,w',, Opuralrd h, a
raH"p yo.u,lned w.,nin "A spac, 1T three
1,pc lie. /. % KID very uu,lkr a mlgn-t-
o. macl.he. IL was a rrciprtraung elgm
Il ,WO iecI stroke, and the walie engine
HH- Od.lrb wclgacd about "ne Goa. Wueu
"a power MAS tntpwn GA by III mOtIon ut u
.evrr, thc engIDr started III ma ~ hceutN
making one huhdred auI fourteen sIrUk-,
per mlnutc; though, when IL drOye d clrcua,
cav ten inches Ia dIdm"t r, saving u,
n"ards an inch and a q iarIer thick rnto IaIhs
the engine made but about eighty srruk,.
por minute. There was great auxrely ol
Abe part Ut the spectators 20 OBJ am sprcI
meas OF these iaIhs, to preserve as Irophir
this eat mecuanIcai triumph. Inc fore
operating upon his magnetic cyHud
lhrhugnOIt the whO.e iRJtIOh Ut Two fee,
was stated to be sIG hundred pJuudS wines
ths en- az was moving very slowly, bat Ia
hid MT been able 10 ascertain what tn
iJrCe was when the engine was runniua d
i'll, speed though II was con idrrabiy 4
lnr mJst important aud interesting Ppth
however, Is the eXpsnsr Ui he power. Fl
lessor Page stated mat he had reduce ia
Gust 80 lar, that Il was less ban steam uIur
'uLnJ AMI IpOsI conditions, though not ~ 10
as tns cheapest steam eug ,nr-, With "a
tue mnperiecuJns VI the engIne, the Cos
Sumption al three pounds at Zinc per ia
would produce one horse power. The la
ger his engInrs CONTRARY to what has bee
Kn1wn oelo'e the greater tho ecOn,n
rrulesoOr Page "as hImsei: surprised at tt
Z, Suit. Tnrr were We, practical d,tficunu
To Ue overcome; the battery had yet to
improved; aud Il remained yet To Ir, the E.
perlmeul ou grander scale, to IN ks
pUwer OF one hundred hursr, o. more.
T,uy the aye Is fraugnI with wonder
a,.d wo can nav look flr"ard win certai
iy 10 tue time wnen Coal wal be put be
Ter use,, tuan 10 bIru, scad and drstuy.
The thlrd aud last lrclur,. o. Prof. Pay
al the Smithsonian In ilituiOn ON Saturd
evsming, was nun .r0uHy attended, a
h,rhly satisfactory. We want no lurIh
proof Of the availability ol the Electro-ma
nstic power for mechani+ al purposes.
AVER. not prepared far such den'nrtratI
of pgwer. aud we were uut alone IN q
surprise aud delight. Men of Science, sh
All mechanics. aud ali Seemed astonI-h
at he rapid progress 0 made IN 80
time.
We noticed SENATOR B ninn present. a
evidently manlrstlng lively interest ~ !
developrmrnts of Prot Pag-. The expe
ments we're brilliant ich. and conc'u,l
aud If Pref Page should not advances Z
s,pu further. the country will be thankful
El tBentuu for bis agency ia bringing Us
n ,b,. r.ai,zstiOn at sIch extraordinary CD
Ail,,,es of the galvanlc pnwrr. Dut. IN
humble Judgment, it cannot stop here;
~ t,usi that every facility will he gwen
Ped Page to carry Vt h's experiments
- y scale as grand as that suggested
BENTON In,l;re The 5 nue.
1, seems 10 Us that The INST direct '
,(Iep,.laliug upon tqe SAFETY OF s'eamh
t".Is., tho value OF this highly prom''
,o,ive 5oVer, aud to of'-r every rea'onA
encouragement for this aud any olhtr
,ivo power free from danger.--l Matte
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