Show APPLICATION OF POWER It Is i not too much to say that tho factory system with is advantages to the community In the production of its I wealth and In the putting of more articles arti-cles within the reach of the purchasing power of more Dcrsons could not lnS1 been made possible without the introduction intro-duction of sources of motive power to supply that which the factory demand I ed for the conduct of Ita processes Tho factory brought together a large num her of workmen wth thor appliances Xor production and put them under a common supervision with n common source of motive power The enormous S ly Increased production which followed foUowed from the combination of all tho advan tagesof the factory system nvan It possible to arrange systems of pur chase and sale of great advantage to gcnadvnnt the operatives on the one hand and to the community on the other The ag gregation ot large lumbers of workers made It economically defensible to In crease greatly the Importance of The machinery of production and the 1ho creased value of time larger volume of output made it significant to Introduce the application of science and Inven ton to Increase the effectiveness of the equipment In the problem of tho ap nllcation of motive power to trans portation aSn form of production In I the sense that It Increase the value or utility the development of a product of the motive significance power of transcends almost any other considera n1Y otherconsle1era I lIon A somewhat impressive example can be derived from the rough calcula tion of the meaning that would ClculQ attach to a transAtlantic liner with a 20000 horsepower engine were that engine 5 to be replaced by 20000 horsenower of human muscles To run night and day there would have to be three relays of men at the treadmill or other applianceS I appliance-S which would be used Each eighthour shift at each 10000horseoowcr engine would be 100000 men or 200000 for the two engines Three shifts of 200000 men OC200men would give below decks a population of pOPulaton 0 city of second grade I the problem moreover were put In the form of highspeed transportation such as Is represented by the locomotive conch conl tion it disappears practically In tho field of the rctcollr needs therefore but a moments considera consider tion of the widespread significance which the railroad bears to the modern economic method to bring out the debt which the modern community owes to the motivepower problem Prof F Rw Hutton in the Engineering Magaslno for January 5 |