| Show STEAM AND electricity an eastern paper locomotives and electricity as aa follows it if t li la Is to supersede steam on tho the ll it will be obliged to fight hard for the position tho the ahr locomotives that run pearly one on hundred miles in an hour are lo 10 have a sall nemer spoorn rival in tho the la form orm of a locomotive with alth drive heeb that stand eland on top of other w chopis hopis and turn them by friction theme in turn giving motion to other wheels that stand on the rails the claim Is in made that filet tho the new device will udd add per cent to the speed of tilt the locomotive arid and greatly decrease tho the weer acor on the rail by distributing the weight anions a large number of small email wheels A of eighty miles an hour ties liaa already alre Arty been reached with the lie new w dan dolci cc should it be increased much tho the electric motor 11 hlll III bo be left out of tire the race until ll it can think u up lit some borne fredly big improvements in iti own ovin mechau mechanism sm that does not give a clear idea of what Is hoped for by substituting electricity for or steam gleam on railroads the hope is that by tho the application of 0 electricity a 40 corole power engine will generate BB as much power as a horac power engine now will rill thus making a great saving in iron a great saying caving in fuel and that an absolutely rotary motion shall bo be given to tho the wheels in tile the same way it Is hoped to reduce the power on oft steamships quite quit throe three cresse fourths and also alao to In increase the speed blitch have the lite effect to add quite 33 13 1 3 per cent to the carrying ca pacify capacity of the ordinary steamship we do not know how true it Is buethe but the impression ts to in fit the air that some startling results aro are about to be announced bounced I 1 through h r 0 ugh the combination and experiments of the westinghouse electric company and the baldwin locomotive if V e WO works A man with his big hand can now move a lever which sets in motion a horse power en engine ine hat is hoped to be accomplished pit led Is 11 that a gleam engine la Is about to become the hand to set I 1 in a motion another power infinitely more subtle and tremendous than the power of steam |
