New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-09-16
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IT, 1854

,....,,, .receeded in perfecting wa1'
d. Frgrh apd Americans have 50 ','"s hours ana 4
Get and failed--a resping mashi"e' - 80 ri wheat,
o,sr,sr this machine, Il II san, c"' /, Aid not
a;,h only one horse and three ser 's"ii =; b,odas
80. !. .,rau h.hipd: IL gathered them al !" VIII
80 /, n them on the ground ready 'o So The work
r,lsy hor.e they cut ten acres per i, i also
~ ,,r Graders and multitude ot reaP.i ,,;o, add
~ r., ;ght other reaper OF French inNento.;
nrntits Of threshers, will figure a, me -, go,
:; ccupeiit;on with those which may DC - in
ISosd Harvest hands we're scarce ln,s - ,,r
Lace on account OF the extensive reer ;at,s
- -, and the preparations for war, and an l'nPe.u
~. ,barfore be en- even 10 labor-savng lnVeh',9ns'
b;,b II il ,o be hoped will not be subject 70 -, -;
The United States, foremost IN tne p tS ,ppor-
itv vTbich now offers itelf IN push into me HAlo'
,n svery useful invention which II IS possio' " s''
there. 49,. ,,b.. Iiyelv interest
a,sJ a f.vy months ago by the beautiful eXper-
vents made By NJ. Saint Clare Deyile' on l.e eN
traction of aluminium from clay. iu INC nVpe ~ go,
il 70 the arts and To commerce u - " =, ~
danty spread through the earn-o suou pm 80
~ ~ common CLAW contained % per cent VI 'tS
weight and whose properties renueIeuI' % ,;N ,f
,be Academy OF Sciences OF Paris m@Ie II 'ui'ou u
funds TO ~ Deyille to esrty ns the most er
,ems;rs e,nerimepts have been made, ana Win tue
most graiift ing results. Ali. r,o,sl and
the,e no more than the small strips shCNu 'T o
contact with air Small pieces handled every uay o'
months have not lost their brilliancy IL Is SO
d;zsble that IL resists the action ot air IN hAl0
heated to temperature equal To that req ~. W
ASSAY Of gold Lead burns in the test an1 virtues
The side of the aluminium, without the latter losing
any of is properties THIS metal conducts electricity
eght times better III an iron well ana perhaps oeei
Than silver IL does not alloy Itself win merc1rf
and ,aL % but a few traces from lead. Il gives win
conner ipbt traces very hard aud very blCS even
when the conner enters for % per cent into tue COM
nositinp of lie melaDge. II Is characterized AT the
highest point by the faculty OF forming WIN CHARCOAL
ard especially with silicium a gray castuS, porous
and brittle crystalizng with the greatest facility
When the casting is attacked wh hydrOchorc acid the
sulphurett.d hydrogen which is disenSagrd, Indicates
the presence of the charcoal; but that which II CON
taius especially is siclum which separates IA s'a'e
of purity when they have prolonged the ACTON oil Ile
chorohydric 8cid concentrated and boiling. Inc
siclum exists in brilliant metallic strips like the
films of pIstina The author thinks that this new
form of scium is to the ordinary silicum what plum
bago is to charcoal.
This body possesses, with an iDaerabiity more COM
plete all the chemical properties which bsrzeus at
tributes to the residue OF tse imperfect combustion o
ordinary silicium. To give an idea OF this lndner
epce TO the action Of the most energetic reactves VI
Devle placed under the eyes OF the Academy
fragment of the silicium, which, having been
heated To white heat in a current OF pure oxygen
did not change its weight. This siliciun conducts
electricity like plumbagO. The casting OF aluminium
from which it was extracted contained more than ten
per cent. In terminating his discourse, NJ. Deville
described two modes for the preparation OF alumn-
un the one by silicium, the other by the ple. Inc
proceedings of the meeting of the Society when con-
tain the description of these processes have not yet
been published.