Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1900-12-12
INVENTOR
OF Dynagraph Car
Has Travelled More Than
100000 Miles.
Remarkable Journey OF
Mrs. Dudley.
She Was Born at Peninsula
Summit County.
Something About Ingenious Invention
OF Her Husband.

Mrs. P. II. Dudley, native Of Pen,
insula, has recently attracted consider
able attention in New York. She is
the travelling companion Of her hus-
band, DIR. p. Ii. Dudley, the inventor
of the dynagraph car.
Mrs. Dudley's maiden name was Miss
Emily Bronson. She is n sister Of
Mrs. A. l.. Conger and has frequently
visited in this city. The following
is taken from the New York Herald.
Poor JOS plaint in "Bleak House."
"They always want me to move on,
move on,w comes irresistibly to mind
when one considers the dyagraph car,
For more than twenty-one years DR..
P. II. Dudley, it's inventor, and his
wife have moved on end on in this
curious marvel Of mechanism.
Three hundred thousand miles, or
twelve times the circumference of the
earth, have been traversed, but unlike
poor Jo the moving has not been with
out it's compensations, pecuniary and
otherwise.
For be it known the dynagraph car
is the one contrivance eXtant for as
certaining with true scientific accur,
ancy the precise condition Of a rail-
ways roadbed, ties rails, joints,
bridges and the like. Consequently
the superintendents Of construction and
repairs, the general managers and the
directors of all the chief roads in
Canada and the United States arc
largely dependent upon the ability and
fidelity of the man who contrived and
maintains this curious vehicle.
Mrs. Dudley, who has always ac,
companied her husband, is a woman
of culture and refinement. Their
peregrinations have enabled her to
see all parts of this continent and she
has absorbed vast store of knowl'
edge without being in the least Pc
dantic. She is musician and has
her piano right at hand always. She
and her husband are omniverous read.
ers, and their car contains not only
working and reference library of
standard volumes and tex books,
but the newest publications and mag
aznes ad libitum. Mrs. Dudley has
written couple of books, too, but so
modest Is she about her literary
achievements that they have been
printed only for private circulation.
The Dudley dynagraph car and track
indicator is one of the most curious
and expensive cars in the world. Al
the present time it is standing on u
side track in the Grand Central yards
at Forty seventh street and Madison
avenue.
One end of the car is devoted to the
intricate and delicate machinery that
records the condition of the tracks
and roadbed, while the other end Is
devoted to the living apartments. I'm,
der the floor provisions, coal and ice
are stored for trip.
The whole structure is very senci,
tive and so delicately balanced chat II
a caller steps on the platforms any
one inside will instantly feel the vibra'
tion.
The shaft which extends down
through the floor connects the dyna
graph gearing with the wheels of the
car, thus regulating the speed of the
recording instruments. When at work
the car is drawn at the rate of twenty,
five miles an hour. At this speed the
many needle pens that play on the
surface of the roll of paper as it pass,
es through the machine draw the re-
cord in red ink.
| This machinery does mechanically