The Clifton clarion., 1888-12-19

the new system has made tremend- ous progress within the past year.
 In a few trades which attain their highest development in the large cities electrical motors are not only driving the steam engine to the wall, but are being put to hitherto unheard- of uses. A mo- table example of this is the cleo tric office fan, which consists of a tiny motor, hardly finch cube and polished brass fan whose shape and appearance are those of a propeller screw.
 In furnishing light power, that which jocose engineers denomi- nate cat power in contradistinc- ton to horse power, the electric motor has made great headway. The best illustration of its success in this regard is afforded in It's ap- piication to the sewing machine. It was long ago found out that these did twice as much work run by power as by the human foot. In the case of sickly operatives, and probably no trade employs and makes more human wrecks than this, the ratio was even greater, running as high as three and four times as much. Any number of motors have been designed for this industry-"Diamond" steam engines, caloric engines and water motorS-but with comparatively little success. Sewing is gener- ally conducted in lofts where hea- " power cannot be used and where the transmission of force by wire ropes, leather belting or metal gearing is impracticable, or where practical so expensive as to greatly increase the net cost of production.
 \ third method substitutes the electric moter for the steam en- zine as the source of power and puts in motion a mass of gearing from which the power is taken of by belts wherever required.
 Similar to the application of the electric motor to the sewing ma chine are those to the shoe-sewing machine, the knitting machine, the rotary churn, the cider mill and press, the cloth-cutting ma chine, the quilting-machine, which quilts a lady's coat with fifty needles in less than two minutes, the harness-sewing machine, and a hundred other mechanisms whose mere enumeration would consume too much time and space.
 The electrlc motor has been ad- ded to the paraphanalia of we'll regulated churches, and blows the organ with an efficiency never be- fore known. With one fell swoop it has put an end to the ancient and honorable industry of the bel loWsman. The new church work CT Is a motor whose size is deter mined by the size of the organ. The switch and regulator are fixed by the keyboard, besides which a "tell-tale" and automatic regula- tor prevent anything happening to the mechanism when in work. As the organist plays and the air is used up, the regulator increases the force of the current and the velocity of the motor until the limit of capacity is reached. Un- der the old system the pressure varied and the amount of air in the bellows ranged from 10 to LOG per cent of its cubic capacity. Un- der the new one the pressure IS always the same aud the amount of air never less than 80 per cent of the capacity. What is more the new bellowsman never gets drunk, never gets asleep and nev- CT disturbs congregation with snore, cough or sneeze.
 In many trades the electric mo- tor is now so common as to excite no comment. These are chiefly the industries in which small goods, mainly metallic, are manu- factured. Lathe, die, moulding and stamp work; embossing, cary