Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1853-01-14
Ertcsson's discovery.

EEIsssous DfsfoNef1.
The successful application of heated air as
a motive power 10 machinery and IN naviga
ton Is The achievement Of the age. The New
York press regard the experimental TIP Of
Ericsson's Calorio ship as triumphat demon
straiion of the idea. and assign the discogerer II
position in the very front rank OF the beneioc-
tors Of mankind. While It would add 10 our
qualification if Capt Ericsson were an Ameri
Gun by birth il is a source Of qualification and
pride that he derived from the liberaty and
enterprise Of American citizens, the means
which be had vainly solicited in his native coun
try of Sweden, as in England and We believe,
other European governments. The Washing
ION Republic says Of him; 1--WE may now say
that Captain Ericsson has realized the hope OF
bis life and reached the goal Of his ambition.
To invent substitute for the steam engine
TINT should operate upon less enormous con.
sumption OF fuel, and less wholesale destruc-
ton of human beings, has been the great OBJ.
jeot of his life To this object he has devoted
his mind and his means, his time and bis re-
sources, for The last five aud twenty years.
He has wrought with the entbu siastlc belief
that it was his mission inthe world To supersede
steam as a motive power by some more man
ogeable and innocuous agent. lie has fulfilled
his mission"
The two important points in his invention
are economy and safety. The engine Of the
Ericsson is kept in motion by one.EJM of the
fuel that would be consumed by steamer
CINE of the same power. Here at once is IA
vast saving in coal in labor, and in shiproom.
Then there is no danger from explosion by
recklessness, oversight, ignoranco-no danger
from. fire, or from the thousand and one acci
dents TO which we are always liable in steam
navigation, We may travel in a Calorio ship
without feeling ourselves perpetually liable to
be boiled, broled, or blown up. There is
nothing to apprehend from an incompetent cx
cited, or rash engineer IN the management OF
"A Cnloric engine; for when ii is once set in
motion it needs no watching. and will run OF
itself for hours without calling for human aid
The worst that could happen, Were the engine
abandoned, would be for the machinery To STOP
some time after all the fires ere extlngulshcd >
These are some of the advantages to- result
from this discovery, but who can estimate is
value and importance when applied to the
myriad phased forms Of mechanical industry
Economy Of means and of labor shortcns half
way the road to prosperity, and robs toll of It's
severity-whilc the protection to human If,
that is afforded is an achievement worth all tn,
glories Of the mightlcst CONDUCTORS The dis
covery marks an era in commercial and indus
trial progress In brief time the ron-armet
Giant of Steam Will have become as defunc
and quiet as those terrible engines of ancien
warfare, the battering ram aud the cataPnIt
A less expensive, cumbrous and destructive
Power will have token its place-better suit
ed to the peaceful advancement of science anC
skill. What comes NEXT Shall it be tn,
Flying Ship or perpetual Monon''-s
long the unattained curekas Of inventive spocu
aton and ycorning.