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take a card at any time. This dynamometer is driven either by 

 the engine or by clock-work, and is an important appendage to 

 steamboats as well as laud engines, registering all the power 

 used. I place a similar machine on the boiler that will com- 

 mence registering as the steam is generated, and continue to sum 

 up on a dial all the steam that is made during the day. This 

 machine is driven by clockwork. This being known, and 

 having the weight of coal, the comparison made one day with 

 another of the amount of fuel consumed, the quantity of steam 

 made, and the power expended at the engine, holding the 

 fireman and engineer to account for the manner in which the 

 fires ai-e regulated and steam applied ; with these checks upon 

 the employees the interest will be increased to excel each other, 

 until the entire labor which the pi-esent system requires will be 

 saved in the cost of fuel and economy of steam. 



Mr. Tillman, from the committee on the selection of questions, 

 stated that they had selected for the next subject " Roads and 

 Pavements." 



At 10 o'clock P. M. the club adjourned. 



H. MEIGSj Secretary. 



February 24, 1858. 

 Present — Messrs. Pell, Leonard, Geissenhainer, Cohen, Veeder, 

 Sheppard, Stetson, Chambers, Seeley, Dixon, of Jersey City, J. K. 

 Fisher, Jordan L. Mott, Tillman, Alanson Nash, C. B. Morse, 

 Lockwood, Hon. R. S. Livingston, and others — 34 in all. 



President Pell in the Chair. Henry Meigs, Secretary. 



The Secretary remarked that as Roads and Pavements was 

 the subject before the Club at this meeting, he had made a brief 

 selection of ancient paved roads by way of introduction. For ii 

 was well, in endeavoring to improve in anything, to know what 

 has been done, in order to avoid the mistakes, or to avail our- 

 selves of the merits of works which fully employed the heads and 

 hands of millions of our predecessors. 



