Inventors . wer soon attracted the attention ofLondon. At first there seemed to be a orreat Zj future for engines upon this principle, but aftermany years of experiments, at great expense,Ericsson found that the principle was useful onlyfor purposes requiring small power. 1111851 hebuilt a heat-engine for the ship Ericsson, a vesseltwo hundred and sixty feet in length, and tellsthe result as follows: The ship after comple-tion made a successful trip from New York toWashington and back during the winter season ;but the average speed at sea proving insufficientfor commercial purposes, the owners
Inventors . wer soon attracted the attention ofLondon. At first there seemed to be a orreat Zj future for engines upon this principle, but aftermany years of experiments, at great expense,Ericsson found that the principle was useful onlyfor purposes requiring small power. 1111851 hebuilt a heat-engine for the ship Ericsson, a vesseltwo hundred and sixty feet in length, and tellsthe result as follows: The ship after comple-tion made a successful trip from New York toWashington and back during the winter season ;but the average speed at sea proving insufficientfor commercial purposes, the owners, with re-gret, acceded to my proposition to remove thecostly machinery, although it had proved perfectas a mechanical combination. The resources ofmodern engineering: havinsr been exhausted in o o o producing the motors of the caloric ship, the im-portant question, Can heated air, as a mcchan- ~t I/I*! •! *&**$. »S,^-i: fill .:-H ; • ! I I I I ] , .7 ^ Jl^ ji a r. &$^im** • f3fl U. o CT> CC 0)01 I/) orao>GQ o I cc LJ X UJ 190 1XVENTORS ical motor, compete on a large scale with steam ?has forever been set at rest. The commercialworld is indebted to American enterprise forhaving settled a question of such vital impor-tance. The marine engineer has thus been en-couraged to renew his efforts to perfect thesteam-engine without fear of rivalry from a mo-tor depending on the dilation of atmospheric airby heat. Before leaving this question of heat-enginesand passing to the more important inventions bywhich Ericsson will be remembered, it may beas well to say a few words concerning the solar-engines to which he devoted many years time,and one of which I saw in operation in the backyard of the pleasant old house in Beach Street,opposite the freight depot of the Hudson RiverRailroad. This house, by the way, which Erics-son occupied for nearly forty years, faced on Park, the pleasant square which was after-ward filled up by the railroad company. Tow-ard t
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