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A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER OF ALL THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. 



Seventh Year. 

 Vol. XIV. No. 336. 



NEW YORK, July 12, i J 



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ELECTRIC MOTORS IN PRINTING-OFFICES. 



One of the many uses found for the electric motor is to furnish 

 power for running printing-presses. There are quite a number of 

 them used for that purpose in this city ; and so well and economi- 

 cally do they work, that a rapid development of the electric-motor 

 trade in that direction is now going on, not only in New York, but 

 in all parts of the country. 



A recent installation of electric motors in the press-room of a 

 newspaper of wide circulation is worthy of notice. Some weeks 



suit, the Washington Star of June 29, as well as the subsequent 

 issues, were printed upon electrically driven presses. 



The machinery of the press-room shown in the picture on this 

 page, that of a firm of printers in this city, is driven by the little 5- 

 horse-power C. & C. motor shown in the lower right-hand corner, 

 which displaced the large hot-air engine shown in the view above 

 it. The machinery in the office consists of five large and three 

 small printing-presses, a 28-inch paper-cutter, and a pump 2.5 by 

 8 inches, lifting water forty feet. Where there are many small 

 industries in a limited area, as is the case in all large cities, the 



C. & C. ELECTRIC MOTOR OPERATING THE MACHINERY OF A PRINTING-OFFICE. 



ago the walls of the Washington Siar's press-room gave way, ruin- 

 ing the steam-engine, throwing the shafting out of place, and com- 

 pletely disabling the office. The only means of quickly resuming 

 work that could be thought of was to put in an electric motor of 

 sufficient power, thus rendering the presses independent of engine 

 and shafting. The Washington agent of the C. & C. Electric Motor 

 Company of this city, being appealed to, telegraphed at once for 

 a 15-horse-power motor, which was shipped immediately, installed, 

 connected with an electric-light circuit, and started up. As a re- 



electric motor is peculiarly economical. Instead of a number of 

 steam-plants scattered about in different buildings, one large engine 

 with dynamos can supply electric current to a great number of 

 motors, each using only the power required, and none wasting 

 power when idle. Besides supplanting small steam, gas, and hot- 

 air engines, the electric motor is in many places opening out a new 

 field for itself as a substitute for foot and hand power in several 

 branches of industry, its compactness and, cleanliness being strong- 

 ly in its favor. 



