The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-13
RAILRozD .cHsoXo0RAPH.
Invention which KEGS Al Kinds Of Tabs
on the Engineer.
FROM the Nd,no ukes Senftnef.


From the Nduoukes Sentinel
A company 10 now being organized IN
Milwaukee to finance an invention which.
It's inventor claims. will prevent many 81
the wrecks and accidents which now AZ
fright q world with their greweomc record
when its use becomes general. ms COM
pany win control In the United states the
patent rights Of the railway ohronosrspn.
as 1t has been styled by Its inventor n. ..
sedswick. formerly Of Beioit. Wis. but now
a resident Of New York city.
The machine which IL to do this wonder
full work IL but . small affair. an iron box
about 10 inches square and inches thick.
II is devised to keep q record OF the work
Of the locomotive to which II 10 attached
and OF its engineer.
The mechanism 10 such that IL records on
a tape every blast Of the whistle. together
with It's exact time and place: the speed OF
the train ct every moment Of time: the time
and place any accident occurs: the speed
approaching, the arrival. the delay. and the
departure from any station: the number OF
miles and the amount OF time consumed ID
switching at any station: when ana where
the airbrAke was applied: how long any
engineer 10 on duty. any and every IMP
Just where the locomotive was At any moment
and what IL was doing at the time: and how
much steam 10 wasted through the pop
or escape valve.
The device 10 entirely automatic ana simple
to degree. II 10 attached to the engine Just
In front Of the cab and over the boiler. VAR,
Gus levers project from the machine and
these are st.sshsa to the part' Of whose action
winding clock. which records its time upon a
ss sns doss n Of an
Each dot represents twelve seconds o. r tine,
"a Into seven coiumns' each one for 4 paTticu.
lar record, and designated rsspe o ,ss hell
the time column, the one-tenth-mDe column
and the ems ineer's punch column.
to the ed 5S% sa' q 2 tho he essns
time the locomotive moves one-tenth o.
mile this makes punGtars in the oss-ts sns a.
points the speed Of the train can at AZ tipss
Be determined; Another lever y sttS q, a
to bell sra q every ON X:
column. The same 10 done In the whistle
column. when the whistle j. used: ~ the
Pop column when the escape valve /. opened
:. The last column Is for the engineer sIseora.
BY means Of q lever in bis CAP ne 1 aa.;ssd 2
He punches in the time Of arrival at 4 station sI
and his departures. as ordered In his rules:
he can't, s' ssH. any Sssd For
trips on the New York Central Railroaa
engineer made q record Of 1t, and when
Poushkee pse was reached. eighty mliss
east, the place where the nut wss dtopped
WAS com puted from the tape. and the nut
vas found by section n ~ IN. I cn,disi me
Of the track: II the ensineer notes .,S p Ssa q
and It's position is essily determined on the
tape. ,u. ..,,r,r.
the place and time Of the marks In the other
column can easily be determined.
The tape Is renewed at the END OF every
run and ls preserved for record. II acts as
a check on the engineer At all times thus
preventing his doing things which he might
do II he did not know that the little machine
10 front OF his cab kept an unerrins record Of
By watching the esosp pc valve \ records
the amount OF steam wasted in this manner
on each run. on one nun recorded BY this
machine recently II was found that N eighty x.
times, a waste Of almost ak tons OF cosl. Inc
record OF the msehine quickly caused des
crease In this needless wafte OF steam ana
power.