| Show COMPESSI CG ELECTra electricity CITY the london chronicle of march 31 says A great areat experiment attended with the most salis satisfactory factory results was tried a few days ago at vincennes in the presence of general lahitte and the officers of the fort the secret of compressing and arid governing electricity is at length discovered and that power may therefore now be considered as the sole motive power henceforward tobe to be used A small mortar I 1 fo r was fired by the inventor at the rate of a hundred shots h a minute without flashing smoke or noise the same power can it seems be adapted to every stem system of mechanical in bention ven tion and is destined entirely to super supersede sede steam requiring neither machinery or combustible A vessel propelled by this power is said to skim the water like a bird and to fear neith i er storm nor hurricane the inventor had al ready petitioned for a line of steamers from lorient to norfork in tiie the united states I 1 I 1 which passage he promises to accomplish in I 1 I 1 eight and forty hours |
