Identifier: inventors00hube2 (find matches)
Title: Inventors
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Hubert, Philip Gengembre, 1852-1925
Subjects: Inventors
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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rd against all accidents wehave here placed a record of baptism weigh-ing eighty thousand pounds. The monumentstands on an isthmus between two lakes sur-rounded by green hills. Ericssons life in England be^an in 1826. For- o o tune did not smile upon his efforts to introducehis flame - engine, for the coal fire which hadto be used in England was too severe for theworking parts of the apparatus. But Ericssonpossessed a capacity for hard work that recog-nized no obstacles. He undertook a new seriesof experiments which resulted finally in the com-pletion of an engine which was patented andsold to John Braithwaite. Young Ericssons ca-pacity for work and for keeping half a dozen ex-periments in view at the same time seems to havebeen as remarkable in those early days as whenhe became famous. Records of the LondonPatent Office credit him with invention afterinvention. Among these were a pumping-engineon a new principle ; engines with surface con-densers and no smoke-stack, as applied to the
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Ol CM00 o c co c 0) D. 0) 0)Q. £ou cc U o Eooo 0> >: d> jzh- JOHN ERICSSON 185 steamship Victory in 1828; an apparatus formaking salt from brine ; for propelling boatson canals; a hydrostatic weighing machine, towhich the Society of Arts awarded a prize; aninstrument to be used in taking deep-sea sound-ings ; a file-cutting machine. The list coverssome fourteen patented inventions and forty ma-chines. Perhaps his most important work at this pe-riod was a device for creating artificial draughtin locomotives, to which aid the development ofour railroad owes much. In 1829 the Liverpool& Manchester Railroad offered a prize of $2.500for the best locomotive capable of doing cer-tain work. The prize was taken by Stephensonwith his famous Rocket; but his sharpest com-petitor in this contest was John Ericsson. Fourlocomotives entered the contest. The LondonTimes of October 8, 1829, speaks highly of theNovelty, the locomotive entered by Messrs.Braithwaite & Ericsson, saying: I

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