New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-04

usual prop rous and with collars and journals by roll
inc them on their own axes beneath the pressure OF
prorerly shaped cOnyereDg surfaces. This we shouid
think ingenious invention, ana one capaol- vi va
re6 spT, alton.
STEAM WAGONS FOR COMMON ROADS have
never. we believe been thoroughly tried in this
country, although q Yankee, whose name We have
forgotten, made some experiments With clumsy
eonrysnce Of the kind about the time when
railroads were first introduced among In England,
however. they have been frequently and thoroughly
tried. Tie first worthy of notice was built by
TrevitLick. name familiar to engineers, in 1904.
Owing il s said 10 the badness of the roads at that
time il did not succeed Scll and is failure discoar
aged for a time. other attempts. n individual
n8ufS Quincy was the first who succeeded in an al
tempt Of this character He at first employed clumsy
ooItIiyauoe iDttIded To- initiate the action OF horses
les, tie failure OF Trevithck had induced the be-
lief Lat Ordinary wheels would not answer; but II
was soon certain that steam could not be made 70
walk and Quincy returned TO the wheels again, when
crowned bis efforts. Many Others encouraged
bv tie result of Gurneys experiments soon followed;
and about tie year $3.50 several were brought in Use
near London, and also between CkeltgBham and GlOu
cester. TLey s0on however, reused such al oPpOsi-
ten from the pTolretors OF coaches, joined by the
corporations owning tie roads from the belief that
tier action was injurious, that Parliament was in
duced to pass an act subectng them 70 tolls so heavy
az to emount to absolute prob bition. II the direct
testin OILY If such witnesses TliOrd, Macnel and
Farey not sufficient to ,hOv that the inventors
needed only iair play to enable them TO bring their
wagons into use tie very fact that such violent Oppo-
sitiou raised against them is Of itself strong pre-
sumpie evidence that their oppOsers even did not be-
eye the steam wagon would die 4 natural death. Ii
is veIy oeTan that steam wagons never can compete
with railroads, neither they be successfully used
on uneven or muddy roads but on plank and McAdam
roads We 90 not an! thing to prevent their INTRO
GUctiOn. ltGCed il is certain that steam power is far
cheaper tE8n that OF horses wherever it can be used
We are led into these remGks from an examination
Of steau-wsgon now on exhibition at the Crystal
Palace, the invention of Mr. j. G. Fisher of this City.
Several notifications have bee&pade in this from the
form Of construction employed m tie sngish ones
In item tie driving Wheels were clutched upon the
axle that the motion OF might be reverted to all
in tuning them. Mr.. Fisher, by placing his steering
wheels directly in front, has this difficulty so
that be is enabled to key bis wheels upon the shalt
He has also arranged hopper 10 render lis furnace
sefeedine, and he likewise employs peculiar device
for keeping Lis water al constant level Severalother
notifications of minor importance are made among
which a horizontal instead OF the ordinary inclined
position Of the cylinders as the inventor thinks the
latter position would produce rocking motion Of the
springs; variable cut of to produce greater reguar
/ ty OF speed, DC, &c Mr. Fisher informs us that he
has tried this carriage far rs TO satisfy himself OF ITS
practicaby and lie proposes to put IN operation -
soon as the weather permits The curious Will md
/ this new competitor tor tie public favor in the Ma
chine Arcade of the Crystal Palace with the inventor
! az hand 10 afford explanations.
Somebody has invented new washing machine.
/ Yes, new one Desperate fellow He bad NOT the
fear of the thousand and of his predecessors who
Lad gone before him-to oblivion. The one before us,
or rather the one that was before the other day is
very NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. because it is unlike any OF
tie multitude heretofore invented. We suppose every
body with dirty shrt to wash, would like to know
what sort Of queer thing this new washing machine
/ ha We will | n
long, foot wide, and twenty-five inches high, made
Of boards tight This is filed half full of water and
then two hundred wooden balls about two inches d.
ameter are put into the water. Now the clothes are
put into n gate and fastened somewhat as the mop
cloth is fastened to a patent handle This gate is at
tscLed TO lever which is hung With cOunterbalance
weight and then as it moves up and down, the clothes
are forced among the balls which operate upon the
clothes very much a wOman's knuckles would do.
ANY perso may satisfy himself of the operations of
this method OF washing clothes, by pouring bushel of
potatoes into barrel of water and churning the mop
down among them Ii il will wash that, then this ma
chine will wash dirty clothes 1t looks as though 1t
would.
-HACKLLYs Cheese Press isperhaps the most sim
pie, cheap effective machine that has ever been in
vented for the use of darymen but assertions are
not very convincing proof to those who want such i'm
Elements as this we will give careful description
of it Fancy then table seventeen inches high, sup
ported upon four stout legs with two posts rising four
feet above, connected by arched top in which works
an iron screw one foot long, and halt inch d.
aneter five threads to the inch The bottom OF the
screw s attached TO square block ten inches by SIX
which works between two guide-bars framed in the
posts On the bottom Of the screw there Is beye
wheel four and halfinches in diameter, which WORKS
into another ON N iron shaft about i've inches long
resting horizontally in bearings the frame in ront
of tie screw Upon tie end of this shaft there Is
crank twelve inches long with handle for turning the
wheels Ia send the rapidly mp down hut that
gives no power Of continuous pressure. mas Is Cd
tanCd b. a very simple continuance, as follows; On
this crank shaft there spur wheel hive and quarter
inches in diameter and about one inch thick, by the
side (Which au iron arm three ard half feet long,
HAMS loosely on The shaft not TO Interfere with
IFS turning by the crank which is TUNED as to give
I'll tie pressure it can by hand and then the iron arm
is lifted and an ingenious catch upon II hooks lAt0
tie coos Of the wheel which may be turned still harder
by tie increased power of the arm and then weight
Of twenty pounds on the viii press cheese OF
sne hundred and thirty one hundrtd and forty pounds
or weight of Is pounds for cheese OF sixty or eighty
pounds and this may be basket pail with stones
brckf or any convenient article In the first pressing
ola cLeese tie arm will require to be lifted and catched
anew two three tines and once in the last pressing
Tie contriyance for putting cbeeses IN the press,
turning them taking them out, Is very ingenious
In the top ofthe table there is wooden roller which
extends from one side to the other and made to raise
and fall that lays with the top flush with the sur
face. Over this lies a movable board, two feet square
upon which tie cheese stands TO press An iron bail
tVo BY two and half feet hang upon each side OF the
table about six inches from the ends, when let down
in front Of The board with slight pressure o one hand
or foot lifts the roller that the board and its load
can be drawn forward by child till tie front edge
rests the crane that the cteese be handled