The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-02-08
Report a ~ CbmmSssioaev AZ Patents for ne gear
i649-Pa9 L--Arts and Mansf actsu0s. New
York J. 8. Roddeld, 1850.

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"The belief is a growing one that electricity in
one or more of its manifestations Is ordained to
effect the mightiest Of revolutions in human affairs
In subtlety and power, in excitability, rapidity,
md iufo Nv of 81 tka
nothing revealed or probably to be revealed. Its
complete subjugation may be held as the climax of
conqucsts in art the apex of ambition and science
so blessed and boundess, 20 surprising all antci-
pations, the seeming results that must follow
When, in addition to what it IL now performing
n messenger-one swifter than those of the gods,
and more reliable than the boasted Ariels of poets
it can be drawn cheaply from its hiding plnces, and
made to propel land and water charOts. animate
manufacturingmec become anagricultural
laborer and q household drudge Of all work, then
may begin 70 think the genius of civilization is
vauiting rapidly toward the zenith.
"6cveraI years ago the discovery of electro mag
nstism awakened sanguine expectations that in it
would be found prime mover 90 compact and en-
ergctic a. 70 be adapted to general purposes. No
sooner was the fact made known that soft iron Is
rendered intensely magnetic by the galvanic or
voltaic pile, than hosts Of mechanicians in both
hcmispheres were at work endeavoring to trans
NIT the enormous power thus developed to motive
machinery. Though exhibited in a variety of APP
Paratus. the principle BY which motion Is obtained
from il i the same in all; one or moro magnets are
fired and serve a. tuleu on which others turn Thus
Professor Henry first produced reciprocating mo-
ton, BY arranging an electro magnet In the man
ner OF balance beam above the opposite poles OF
two permanent magnets, keeping up oscillation by
alternately breaking and renewing the connexion
with the battery.
Rotary motion IL attained by 20 arranging two
circles Tor portions Of circles) Of magnets, one
within the other, that the faces OF those which re-
volve may sweep round those that are immovable,
and ~ near a. can be without touching. BY a Sc
rics Of cut-o6 the stream Of electric fluid Is alter
nately let Oh and excluded, % that each face OF
revolving magnet is pulled in succession toward
each OF the liked ones, and as 1t passes is pushed
away toward the next
"While in some machines permanent are en-
ployed in connexion with electromagnetic, in others
the latter are only used. Change Of polarity Is
abandoned In some, and with 1t the rcpellant force
the bars being rapidly msgnetized and dc-mag-
nctxed by opening and closing their connexion
with the battery.
"In 1888 jacob propelled a small shallop with
fourteen men, on the Ncva at the rate Of four miles
an hour, three against the stream. He had four
fixed electro ma Rnets and the same number of re-