Kitching, J: Ericsson's Caloric Engine -

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Excerpt from Ericsson's Caloric Engine: General Agency and Depot for the Sale of Caloric Engines

A result more important in view of the number of engines em ployed is exhibited on the New York Central Railroad, on the line of which there are now some 20 of these engines in daily use. Mr. Chauncey Vibbard, the Superintendent of that road, reports, over his Official signature, after several months' experience with a number of these engines, that they perform an incredible amount Of labor for the small quantity of fuel consumed. One of them, he says, for 96-100 of a cent per hour, does the work formerly done by four men, at an expense of dollars25 each per month. Another of the same size, at the Savannah station, at an expense of eleven cents a day.

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