Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1853-03-25
The CnlOriC Engine,

her construction. &C., to the members Of the
Legislature and others on board. Having fin
shed the mechanical description, lie spoke as
follows Of tn, invcntion:-
One Of the great advantages of this nvcn-
tic !, and, in point of humanity, the greatest is,
that there can be no explosion under any cir
cumstanccs. BY its ad Jption we will hear OF
no more heart rcndng accident which now so
frequently occur, And, in commercial point
of view, It's adpahla res cannot be sufficiently !
estimated. 1hs ship under your feet Will car
~ coal enough to clrcumnavlgate the globe -
Five hundred and fifty tons Will be sufficient
for this purpose, You can 60 to China and
back without taking in Goals there You can
30 from the United Sates to Australia and
til cncc to England without coalng in Austria
LA. This vessel CONSUMED four tons and a
quarter only III twenty four hours during her
late trip. This, Gentlemen, is not theory is
practice. Anthracite is the best fuel for this
engine because we only require slow, ridia
ting heat AMI predict that when this new
motive power shall have been Introduced, Eng
land will come lhrr for her coal. British v,s-
sells will coal on this side, instead of the other
side of the Atlantic. Our mountain of an
thraclte col are incXhaustablc. The whole
world may come here for their fuel
Under our present steam system VIC cannot
carry coal enough to cross the Pacific without
| Intermediates coal stations Fast steamers can
| not exist on tlir own earnings great is the
| expense OF the present system. Not only have
! they to pay for tie coal, but also for handling
It: and alto reihcr, nearly sixty men are EN-
ploycd in one of these large steam vessels, in
conn, c;ion, VIII the machinery. In a vessel
upon this principle, not more than twelve men
certainly wou,d be requisite. a single fireman
on duty at time here suiccS, whereas in the
ocean steamer heavy gang Of men arc ncces.
sarv. view tins mdchlni as Of great lmpor-
lance, in connection with the great internal i'm
( provGnrnts of our State, which you are now
engaged in carrying out. You have only to
complete your railway communications, in CON
nee ion with the West, AMI continue the slme
to the en- rance ufChesapcake Bay to. Norfolk,
where YOU have an excellent har5or. to get
vent for your great agricultural produce, and
send it to the countries on the other side of the
Atlantic. | say, complete your internal COM
munlcu,lons and Virginia, with her immense
mineral and agricultural resources will become
the great, If not the greatest, State OF the I'm
ION.
Steam lines, if constructed at once would
not pay, whereas Galore ships would yield i'm.
mediate profits, although the trade is not so
great AS it will be. must again call upon you
to look at this new motive lower in connection
with your internal Improvements, and you will
find that 1t has an important bearing upon them
Cap. Ericsson now said that he would be
very happy to reply to any questions in relation
TO this new motive power. Several lnterroga-
torres were then propounded by honorable IN m
bers, ana he answered them with exceeding
cearnrss ami dStinctness. He said, among
o her things, that the maximum pressure is IL
rounds TO the square inch. and that the temper
| h, ,l,I : lao ,rln
: to produce tins pressure, is only three hundred
and eIghty-!t ur degrees. The amount OF heat
lost by the process of transfer, amounts to only
one-cighth of the whpe. The saving could
be carried still further, bit 1t would not great Y
; enhance the value Of the uacl lac "a we cru
now carry fuel enough TO cIscunnavlgate the
, ylobe, and that is sufficient. As to speed, in
constructing this sh y, nine miles only was con
y templatcd, as that was sufficient to render the
| enterprise commercially profitable, A yen
ago, he was ridlculel for undertaking 10 MAKE
cylinder fourteen feet in diameter; and now
! there are houses IN New York re ldv to cas-
- and bore cylinders twenty feet in diameter, a
II their own risk. Such are the Improvements il
= the arts we have here at one bound produced
d a cyllndcr of three times the area of those 0
the Collins steamers; while, formerly, by adj
> dInr an inch or two, we thought we did greu
= things. With reference to locomotive engines
t capt ERlcssoN '''n ne cou'u no" o'l'u ont
y last enough 'o' ''t'9"''e P"l poses o"' III or
e year "c"cc III O'u'u 'o"'H"o' o"' u ~" VIII
r Tue fastest
Il l"ulne 10 the NaIorIc SNIP ne Statcn Una
siic couIu carry 'Aree une' as hlUch ''P'SNt !
: the fast Atlantic steamers ms she has an entire
He'SHt oech' on WING" 10 coaI - o'fF'oG IN
Goals III inns VeSsel nelhS $40" Oh MEOW III
irel9hl uech' III Du'l"'rA, a'nneslue '''e ehglhe'
! tAe cost, including 'he pnteht chhrgeS, Is I'd
of same as that OF an ordinary OCEAN steamer; 5
That The employer VIII nave Inc oeheut OF IN
advantages OF the new motive power witho'
additional pay, In relation to stationary CT
IT, glhes, he Sild mat they w'uId not DC so chea
r. as high, r2ssure engines, bat about the sam
- "Gcntcncn, nc sald IL now want you I
A. Jo whom the coun,ry !. indebted to whom n
tcoM Is indebted for having this new mDty
We power tested on such II magnificent scale Z
not to render "A second experiment ntCeSSlr