Ericsson's Caloric Engine

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Excerpt from Ericsson's Caloric Engine: General Agency and Depot for the Sale of Caloric Engines One of the most important inventions of the age, for the lightening of human labor, has recently been put in practice in the extensive clothing establishment Of Messrs. Carhart Payan, in the city Of New York. We refer to the use of Ericsson's Caloric Engine, in the operation of sewing machines. The engine is employed to pump air into a tank or reservoir, from which it is transmitted by tubes to the treadle of the machine by a contrivance which enables the Opera tor, by merely turning a regulator, to set it in motion and graduate its speed. This dispenses entirely with the use of the foot and leg of the Operator, the action of which, during the long hours of a working day, is always painful, and frequently so distressing as to drive some of the best work-women from the employment. By the new system the operator is enabled to devote her exclusive attention to the material she is employed upon, and the guidance of the needle, so that she accomplishes in a given time a much larger amount of work. The new motor has been applied to twenty machines in the New York establishment, and the result is the increase of the effective power of the operator from fifty to seventy five per cent. The average increase of production in an establish ment employing two or three hundred hands is of such manifest importance as to compel the universal introduction of the new motor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.