Year: 1875

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While the journals of Philadelphia and
Rochester have been giving the recent in
ventors of their respective towns a world
wide celebrity, leaving room for specula-
tion and doubt in the minds of many,
still another worker has been no less ac-
tive in perfecting an idea which, if sue
cessful, and we can't see how it will fail,
will add at least another to the list of con-
testants. Mr.. F., young man of much
mechanical genius, has for several months
past experimental with his new power, and
has so far succeeded as to justly his or.
dering from the different iron-wOrks here
pieces of machinery intended to be used
in its construction. He has been thus
peculiar, ordering at different times from
different ones, in order to prevent discov-
cry as to the nature of his machine, or
for the purpose for which he designed to
use them. He calls it the "electro-motor"
power, and if half claimed for it is real
lied, Keely and the Rochester man had
about as well turn their attention to
something else.


The machinery, so far as have been
permitted to examine, is run entirely by
a power whose working force is contained
within the space of cows horn, uses
neither wood nor water, and is run en-
tirely by the subtle fluid from whence it
derives its name. 1t is simple in con-
struction, is entirely devoid of the COM
plicated working apparatus of the loco
motive, and, unlike the locomotive, the
power can be applied instantaneously to
each individual car if necessary, thus
giving the driver the control of all parts
of his train without the necessity of
blowing off or on breaks whenever it is
desirable to start off or to stop. The
economy of the invention can well be ap-
precia.ed, when the cost of first class
driver or motor will not exceed one thou
sand and two hundred dollars, while the
cost per month for material will not ex-
ceed thirty-five cents. Mr.. +. is not
machinist by trade, consequently is no
enthusiast like many inventors are, but
having discovered the principle over
twelve years ago, he has been quietly
working to perfect his invention, more
with view to control than to augment
more fully its force. He has been fully
persuaded for many years that his inven-
tion was perfect in all but one particu-
lar, and this remedied, he has been
equally persuaded that it must not only
supersede steam or any other motor,
but must greatly trench upon ground
heretofore held by the brute creation for
purposes of domestic economy.


The machine, ready for service, will
weigh about twenty-eight ounces. Some
estimate may be formed of its power,
when, as one of its experiments, the ma
chine was attached to a fy-wheel weigh
ing quarter of q ton. At the pressure
of the finger upon the key the piston
began its forward movement, the wheel
its revolutions, and attained in four Sec
onds the enormous speed of twelve hun
dred minute, and could not have been
doubled or quadrupled if metal strong
enough could be produced to stand the
friction. The machine, owing to its
electrical surroundings, is encased in a
non-conducting apparatus, called by the
inventor the electric jacket" which
fully protects the machine from giving
of or receiving an undue allowance of the
fluid.


Many experiments were related illus
trative of the power of the new motor.
Suffice it that the inventor hopes to have
his letters patent and machine in
readiness to perform the work of one
hundred horses by the opening of the
Georgia State Fair in October. He is
now engaged on model from which to
secure his patent, his first having ex-
ceeded the dimension required by law.