Hannibal journal. (Hannibal, Mo.) 1852-1853, 1853-01-20
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Successful Trial Trip Of the Ericsson - Another Grea
ConnmaFcial Enternriaa

Successful Trial Trip Of the Ericsson Another Great
Commercial Enterprise
In the great commercial and shipping circles
Of the world, nothing has excited more interest
OF late than the novel discovery and enterprise
of Capt. Ericsson, by which steam as a motive
power, is to be supplanted by ealoric, or heated
air; and nothing but the successful application
Of the actual test could remove the skepticism
with which, generally, the project has been
viewed. The test, has, however, at length been
furnished, and now all doubts of the practicable
ity and importance Of the invention are dispeled.
The ship Ericsson, constructed on the new
principle, made her trial trip, on Tuesday morn
ing, down the bay Of New York, and from the
complete triumph with which the experiment
was attended, there need now be no hesitation
in acknowledging caloric great natural ele-
ment adapted to locomotion, destined to work a
complete revolution in navigation, and to confer
an nestimable benefit on mankind. "'"'
The Ericsson was put under caloric early on
Tuesday morning, and started from Williams
burg between nine and ten o'clock. At Oh
56 M, she passed the flag staff on Governor 5
Island, and AZ l0h. 80 IN. and 80 seconds, she
was abreast Fort Diamond, thus making a dist
cncc 81 Scvc a's3 three g!.IsS ;stS "a tJsi!ty 5u
minutes and thirty seconds, From thence she
proceeded down the bay, rounded to below Spi
Head buoy at ii h. u NJ, and there anchored
in consequence Of snow squall. She returned
on Wednesday, and anchored off the Battery a
two clock in the afternoon. The differenc,
between the stated points on Governors ISLAM
and Fort Diamond being accurately known b,
triangulation to be seven miles, $50 yards, tn
speed attained was as stated, about fourtee
miles an hour. The consumption of fuel is as
certdlned TO be only Sir English TONS per t,Centy
four hours, SdUing, as compared loHL steam
ships, gilmore than eighty per cent. AS the shi
draws 10 feet 10 inches on an even keel, thi
performance at first trial, has astonshed a
concerned in the enterprise.
The great idea which had, for more tina
twenty years been ripening in the brain of Ii
inventor, but which from the incredulity an
opposition he encountered among men of capit
I i'll his native country, in England and in Amel
lea, he had been unable to realize, has thus bee
substantiated as real entity. 1t was fortunat
for Captain Ericsson and for the world, that oil
of our own enterprising merchants, John
kitching, Esq, who appreciated and relied c
his talents and genius, determined at all fish
: TO enable him to make the experiment on sea
= worthy of the magnitude of the ISSUE For tn
G purpose the latter furnished half of the capt.
necessary for the enterprise, and disposed amor
his acquaintance of the remainder of the stool
by this means, and regardless of expense, Il
e clipper ship whose first performance we ha'
: recorded, was built at the yard of Perrine, Pa
terscn 81 Stort 4. ;. - I'm Inc! 4
y" "a Gt~ua, and htted up with enginery
the calorio principle, under the immediate d
: rection and supervision of Captain Ericsso
b my Herald, 9TH.