The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-03-04

Co. she said, coolly and cuttngly,
and never, Mr.. C4ardendon, appear to
wear your laurels until you have uo.
So much for q smile!
He. .strOde from her presence with
curses, not loud but deep, foiled for the
first time in his life by q woman, and
cursing the lips that had unwarily
smiled away a fortune Of fifty thousand
dollars. s.a} -, st
And Ben Morford married the idol of
his boyhood and manhood in less than
three months after, proving beyond
doubt that he tried again, and that Ma
bel forgot her young Apollo in a cruelty
short space of time.
THE LATEST GREIf'INyENrI0N.
A Fast Freight Line fer the world
TIVE Hundred Miles an HOur.
From the New York Sun.
An invention has been made that is
now to be brought before the attention
Of the country, which promises results
of the highest Importance TO its indus
trial and commercial interests. If it
produces in practice what the theory
indicates, it will lead to a vast develop
ment of our whole in lustrial system
agriculture, manufacture, and com
merce. -. .s. -f.s 3 f.,z
The invention consists in the en-
pl0yment of q new principle in locomo-
ton, which will furnish the basis of
new method of transportation. BY it
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fruits, meats, coal, ores, high wines and
merchandise generally, together with
the mails-will be transported to and
from all parts of it in a few hours in
stead of days, and at a cost so trifling
as not to impose any sensible burden
on production. 1t will be at once ad-
mitted that if such results can be at
tained, the commerce and industry of
the country will placed in possessio Of
facilities which will enlarge immensely
their field of operations, and open a
new era to the prosperity of the ma
ton. -
METHODS OF TRANSPORTATION HERE
TOFoRE USED. ~
Before explaining the new method
let us glance briefly at those that have
been heretofore used. 1t will prepare
the way for better understanding of
its principles and processes.
But two distinct methods have been
used by mankind up to the present
time. In the earlier stages of society
animals were tanned and brought un-
der sutjectiOn, and used as carriers or
agents of transportation loads to
be carried being simply packed Oh their
back.
The first invention of man to effect
transportation by mechanical means
was the wheel, that is, disk, held up
right by q cross-bar called the axeltree
Rude carts with two wheels were first
constructed, and these simple vehicles
were drawn by the animals already
tanned, over the rough surface of the
ground, which was the primitive road
bed of man. Next, wagons with four
wheels were devised, and roads were
made by grading the uneven surfaces;
then springs were added to diminish
Greeks and Romans; and, lastly, re-
introduced, marking the higher devel-
opment attainable under the system
that employs horse power, and the
earth as road bed. At length the
railroad was invented, supplanting
these imperfect means or agencies. 1t
is the substitution of an iron road led,
smooth and level, i'm the place of the
old road bed of earth, always more or
less uneven and rough, and of the loco
motive in the place of the horse. The
railroad is the full and final develop
ment of the system that employs the
wheel and axle principle; it renders it
the most efficient practicable, and conf
pletes the series of Improvements pos
sible in this direction. Thus the two
means of transportation that have been
employed in the past ale animals and
wheeled vehicles.
THE NEW PRINCIPLE AND IT'S METHOD.
The invention that has been made
introduces new principle, and with it
a new method of transportation, entire
ly different from the two heretofore
employed. We will now proceed to
explain in what the invention consists,
and the instrument or agent it uses in
place of the wheeled vehicle. q
The instrument of lOcOmOtiOn which
the invention employs Is the sphere,
which is substitutes for the wheel. The
sphere, or globe, is the simplest and
most complete form of vehicle i'm
motion. 1t rolls without friction, is
moved with the least power, and is
capable of the highest rate of speed
possible to any form of material body.
Nature employs the sphere wherever
she requires high velOcities, as exem-
plified In the greatest PLANETARY bodies.
Following nature i'm her teachings, the
invention employs the sphere or globe
as its vehicle of motion. To adapt it
to the purpose of transportation, it is
made hollow, and the load to be carried
is placed inside. Thus, hollow spheres
or globes, carrying their loads inside,
are the vehicles used u-der the new
system. They may be of any size, from
two to ten feet in diameter. They
would be best made of some one of the
metals, quite thin, and turned in a lathe
perfectly round. They would be pro-
vided with opening for loading and un-
loading, which would screw in and
form a part Of the surface. ''tff
THE NEW ROAD BED OK TRACK.
The new vehicle requires an equally
perfect road bed or track OH which to
operate. This road bed has been pre-
pared by the invention of the pneu-
matte tube, and its successful employ
ment. Such tubes have been cOHstruc-
ted in London, and are in operation
A little railway with cars is placed in
sitle-the cars drawn by piston fitting
in the tube. The friction power is oh
tanned by exbausting the air i'm front.
The tubes which the Invention employs
will be trifle larger than the spheres
or globes, 50 that they can roll freely
without touching the sides. On the
bottom, q metallic plate or rail will be
laid slightly concave to adapt it to the
convexity Of the sphere. This plate or
rail will be its road bed. The proper
ties which the pneumatic tube possesses
fit it admirably for the new vehicle of
motion. 1t will furnish the sphere a
track that is, first, smooth, even, and
solid second, perfectly clean, free from
dirt and dust, and protected against the
perturbing action of the wind, rain, or
snow; third, passage way in which
the spheres, moving with the current
of air, will not be impeded in their
motion by the resistance of the atmos-
phere. From these explanations it
will be seen that the invention consists
i'm employing hollow spheres or globes,
with the load to be transported inside,
operating in pneumatic tubes.
We will not enter into details of con-
traction and management. Suffice it
say. that lines of tubes can be easily and
rapidly constructed through all parts
of the country, even i'm the Rocky
Mountains, where no railroad can 60.
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