348 On Electro-magnetism as a Moving Power. 
yet been tested, although it possesses Soaps el not to be found 
in auy form of the reciprocating engine. re are some ob- 
vious disadvantages attending its construction ; cn it is hoped 
that they will be “outweighed, more especially as this form of the 
engine will. oocuny less than one-half the room required for the 
% reciprocating fo 
It wonld teemee desirable that the investigation thus begun, 
and so far stigcessfully eonducted, should be carried at least be- 
yond an uncertain issue, and that every important point should 
be settled, and particularly that of its availability on an extensive 
scale. The power is peculiarly fitted for’ purposes of navigation, 
ake itcan be made subservient; and atrial npon a scale of oue 
7, wing ‘notice of Prof, Page’ 8 experiments is from the Daily National In- 
tel'i rencer of September 11, 
~ Since the first announcement by Prof. Page of the resu ults of his discoveries, I 
have seen pa gee: public journals accounts of inventions for the same purpose, b 
-_ other persons, and in mést.of them claims to novelty and great superiority. I had 
“ some candy e refer té Professor P. an article of this kind, fom aJate number of 
the St. L perey in which it was stated that Mr. Bl t.city, ha 
new faveution, “far in ce,” as was sho culation, “ of that adopted by 
snaking the reference, my attention was ca 
sh th vole an'’s Journal, page 352; published in 1839, in which Pro 
explained and fig ed an electro-zmagne 
Babe 3 ios is peculiar and entirely new 
eter hitherto tried ; ‘and ther the bering: of his s 
beaten: oy whi ch; ‘though seemingly. fair, he _Wwas pers 
the ES daicod end, he marked out an entirely new oie.* 
his and ot other plans as I understand it to be, is*this: In 
i Laat at pa eberstery st Dr. Page, a the awial en 
owhi o@fhink: 
de really. a curio 13>. @achi 
peor at this, iilstaad alt) I his woud feele “it “appears” 2 at 
upon a ne ew e era ‘in ‘seience an art, promisit rev 
pursuits as miractlous to the people of the day ‘ 
steam eye and the magnetic telegraph. * 
In order to show ‘that there was somethi power, he Joaded down m thé. saat é 
laced "tke crank at half stroke, and then a hook over the’ end ‘of. * bg crank, to which 
wai 
k was attached a long rope. Three of the strongest m th then’ 
hold of the rope, two ving their feet b. The three men could not 
the engine a hair’s br Four of the men the k and they moved 
the crank two inches, where it stuck fast. The power was then let on, and the 
~ started, and e & speed of ninety vovahwioat nute taking off 
fourteen pounds from: the end of his friction brake the engine made one hundred { 
and rn Pars tis per minute. Professor Page stated that this was not testing the 
power of the engine, but it showed that what four men could but just move days 
i i ied of a mi t, t 
tw hes, the earried through pip mile, and that, too, in 
ute. Und that, from t ge e posi t power of 
four men could go no further than two inches, gate 
‘essor @ expects to make a ne I upon a railroad soon. ‘He has sufficient 
power now to make a demonstration ; but is not satistied with it, He-would be 
: to 
make the first trip with psig arsaonel horse power, It is, however, 
that A invention, and 
_ navigation he ets the test. benefits from this : 
oie toss the project carried toto of = engine and magnate bot [ne 
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