. The locomotive engineer . era-tun- in tbe car of seventy degrees Fahrenheit, un-less ordered for other tcmperalnrea. They aremade for sixty-eight, seventy, seventy-two andseventy-four degrees. livery regulator is provided with a lever, shownat side in cut, which admits of a change of fourdegrees in the point al which the regulalor willhold the temperature of a car. Tbe standard reg-ulator is designed to hold tbe temperature at sev-enty, with a possible range between sixty-eight andFcventy-two degrees, depending on position of suchlever. After the exliibition the editor of this paper madea tr
. The locomotive engineer . era-tun- in tbe car of seventy degrees Fahrenheit, un-less ordered for other tcmperalnrea. They aremade for sixty-eight, seventy, seventy-two andseventy-four degrees. livery regulator is provided with a lever, shownat side in cut, which admits of a change of fourdegrees in the point al which the regulalor willhold the temperature of a car. Tbe standard reg-ulator is designed to hold tbe temperature at sev-enty, with a possible range between sixty-eight andFcventy-two degrees, depending on position of suchlever. After the exliibition the editor of this paper madea trip over tbe ;& H. C, fo. in a train heated bythis system and controlled by regulators. Everyventilator in the four cars was open, the air wasfresh and pleasant and the lemiwniture at sixty-nine, not only by IIjc thermometeron the inslruinent, but by two others at the endsof tbe cars. The trainmen do not touch the heat-ing device, it cares for itself. Tbn ideii of regulating the temperature in a Iruiu. by an automatic device that lakes notice of everydisturbing clement and meets it, instead of regula-ting by Ibe hand of a green brakesman and Ibewbima of Ibe passeDget^ is a grand improvement, Pat«iit Cent«uuial Cclcbratiou. Elaborate arrangements have been madetocele-hnilo Ihf lieginnhig of tbe sectmd century of theAm- riiiiu imlenl dysleiii, at Washington, on tbeyili, lltli uriil mill ..f April next. President Harri-son wH\ opeu tlie celehralion, and the liteniry ex-ercises will be presided over by some of the mosteminent Invuiilors in the country. T^venty ad-drcises upon tbe different phases of invention willbe delivered by men who arc famous as masterit ofthe subjects tliey will discuss. A national associa-tion of inventors and manufacturers of patentedarticles will he orgjuii/.e^. There will be a grandreception at the Patent Ollico by tbe Secretary ofthe Interior and Commissioner Mitchell, at whichul which it Is expected Cynis W. Field. ThomasA, liiiisoi
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