New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-09
INDUSTRIAL AND SCIENTIFIC INTEL
ILGEkCE.

10Th m this country and in France. ufeat DraAn
r,s,.x much excluded from al the dement's OF tns IN
rsn,,,n bv kind of dog-n-,he msnger Pohcy OF the
holders Of the first ps,ent there About WV nia-
h;rs. have been manufactured in the United States
during the year lust elosed and still larger nunoe'
xiu prob.bly be produced during 1857. In TINS esl-
mate we have Included only those manufactured oy
,be three great companies. viz: Wheeler, wilson u
70 nj SPRINGFIELD, Mass. Grover Baker 4 Co., 81
Rosion and I. NJ Singer & Co, ID this city l".h'y-
Eve or more workmen are employed 10 the eonstruc-
t;on Of single machine, each performing dint'nc'
rs Of the labor and the machines are turned OUT IN
a very high degree OF mechanical PERFECTION Inc
average value Of the machines is about sloV so that
the total production of this branch OF industry d
nre.,pt reaches 81 OOO, eco annually Grover Baker
& Co. employ. to considerable extent, the caoIne''
work cases patented by Ross 4 Marshall OF thus e"y'
which makes the machine an ornament ana Oy no
means the least really valuable ornament OF the stas
room.
Pumping EyeIyEs-A contract for the heaviest
,,,r,;r- machines ever made or used in America Will
soon be awarded by the parties engaged IN pushing
forward the Brooklyn Water Works. Twenty millions
Of gallons of water per day are TO De holsed l'V ee'
by steam. There many plans before the Ooui'''''
tee Of Engineers employed to decide on the SUBJECT
some involving new and untred, and IN some cases
very uppromisrg devices, while others Involve ue-
gree of expense and maguifcence TOO serious 70 oe
entertained. The fact s, American engineers, WIN
all their smartness in lines Of business, DO not
seem TO understand pumping water on large scaie'
The very large slow, siDgeacting engines and pumps
in the ines at Cornwall in Great Britain are oeheVeu
to be the most economical in the world and although
there exists in theory rOOm for considerable improve
ment on these with shame be It said, we cannot even
initiate them. The proportion OF water raised 10 tue
coal burned varies of course, with the hight TO whch
is TO be raised but reducing the effect in all cases 10
that of lifting water only foot the Cornish engines
in Cornwall, lift from IS TO 100 millions and in some
cases as high l25 million pounds of water per pound
Of coal burned while the latest and, think the best
Of our American limitations is that at Beeviue, which
raises the water for jersey City, and atans duty OF
50 millions American designers OF steam engines and
pumps must rub up their IDEAS
BREAK DowSs on MARINE SrEAsEEs.-The break
ing of shafts or other principal parts on steamships Is
not as unusual occurrence as many suppose. The
di aiding of the Atlantic few years ago, and the more
recent accidents to the Tennessee, and Hermann, as
also 10 the English steamer America, the French
steamer Vigo and sundry others of lees note, have
attracted especial attention, because the delsy was
especially important, giving rise TO apprehensons for
their safety or the like; but whether )mmon rare
they are due in almost every to the furious strug-
giles of the engine in a gale. The "msrine engine
governor" by Thomas Silver, a most etfectua pre-
yentivs of all this cannot be too known and
adopted This governor is of no effect except when
by reason Of the wheels being thrown out of water by
the r,c.jng Of the wsye-the engine is tempted to
turn too fast when il Immediately shuts off aud re-
duces s speed. The breskages occur 10 consequence
of the momentum of the parts when not thus controlled
With both wheels whring very rapidly, if one only
is plunged suddenly into the water and checked the
other acts Ike a fly wheel and, aided BY the ever
active engines in the center, twists of the SHAFT.
EXHIBITIONS OF ISyESTIoys.-IIalls for the ex-
hbition Of models, &C.. of inventions appear TO be
sprir cling up simultaneously in all our principal cities,
but we have rot learned with what success. At Pha
delpba in addition 10 several previously advertised,
Thomas NJ Cash, an enterprsing railroad supply
agent announces such repository in connection with
his establishment, at No. - Walnut street. At Bos-
ton large concern, comprising two balls, each 20
feet long and 20 wide, at the corner Of Lincoln and
Essex streets is nearly ready to receive goods.
In his city on Broadway, feg doors above Nlbo's,
two very fine are already prepared, With the
intention Of making it, by its extremely favorable oca
ton the principal exhibition OF the kind in the country
Both this and the Boston concern charge small rent
TO exhibitors but this is announced as free TO visitors
although we predict that i; will be expedient very
coon to charge dime or half dime for admission.
WAIER.PRooF FABRIcs-ClOth may yet be fabri-
Gated which Will behave Ike mary goods in every
other respect but viii resist the penetrating action
of rain. Such ha, in degree been done by DR. b.
Wiegert Of Hoboken y. j., who Obtain ed patent
last Summer tor his process DR.. WIS method is some
thing ike the French waterproof article described
some months ago, but employs additional materials.
DR.. W. mixes sugar of lead with alum both dissolved
in water supbate Of lead foms and settles, and the
remainder he terms acetate of alumna and is drawn
Of and mixed with solution of soap, glue and alum
and in this mixare the fabrics TO be treated simply
dipped ard manipulated until thoroughly wet, after
which they are dried and smOOthed. Water certainly
exhibits strong reluctance 10 penetrate the pores Of
sue goods ard although flow through quite freely
aerthe cloth is wet the ntertces Of the cloth
again their repelant quality as the cloth is dry
CoRy'HrsXER.-John Tsggert and L. A. Grover Of
Ro1bury, Macs, have patented, and are introducing
machine which at a moderate cOst, seems well de-
signed to strip the busks from Indian very rapidly
ard eftciually. The hunks are loosened by "a sing
off the but OF he cob cose as ~ Craze and per-
hsps ptay destroy The FIRST row Of the graio and the
loose hunks are then readily removed by teeth pro-
isctIg up through crate which the fall. The
ears in their Is,ural state are seized aud carried
through very rapidly and quietly and the power 70,
the whole lie supplied though should judge by rather
too great e1ertiOD by the foot Of the operator Even
aloDw ing man or boy to turn crank, il will eg.
deDty be a very great saving of LABOR.
ISIERsAL CARRYIys BUSINESS OF RUssIA.-Ra
roads almos. new thipg in Russia, fact partly
due 10 doubt, to the ehespness Of carrying on CON-
mon roads This ia so great that teas and other light