DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1367#0058
THE PARIS EXHIBITION.
53
ascend a continuous incline of one inch per yard, whilst des-
cribing marked curves; and another of the Eastern Railway,
with a tender-motor increasing the power in ascents, and
neutralizing it in descents.
The comforts of travellers have'also had their due share of
attention, and if all the improvements exhibited are realized, a
man may soon expect to find himself quite at home in a rail-
way carriage, and enjoy his drawing-room and bed-room, as
if he were at home. Neither have the poorer classes been
disregarded, for the upper stories which the French are so
fond of placing over their carriages, are now closed in with
windows, instead of being open as heretofore to all the
winds of heaven. This would delight Alphonse Karr, who
justly complained in one of his books, that the people who
were the least warmly clad were always the most exposed to
cold.
There is a plentiful show of steam-engines of every system
and shape; but without attempting to describe them all, we shall
merely cite BerendorfPs tubular boiler containing moveable
tubes, which can be taken to pieces and cleaned with the
greatest ease, and Breval's portable vertical steam-engine, the
whole machinery of which rests on the boiler, rendering it
simple and inexpensive.
Quetel Tremois has some ingenious machines for sawing,
planing and cutting wood, which work with a regularity not
to be expected from hand labour, and which offer a great
saving of time.
Noel's soap-mill is also worthy of attention; it chops up.
the soap, and grinds it into a fine paste, to receive the necessary
colour and perfume.
53
ascend a continuous incline of one inch per yard, whilst des-
cribing marked curves; and another of the Eastern Railway,
with a tender-motor increasing the power in ascents, and
neutralizing it in descents.
The comforts of travellers have'also had their due share of
attention, and if all the improvements exhibited are realized, a
man may soon expect to find himself quite at home in a rail-
way carriage, and enjoy his drawing-room and bed-room, as
if he were at home. Neither have the poorer classes been
disregarded, for the upper stories which the French are so
fond of placing over their carriages, are now closed in with
windows, instead of being open as heretofore to all the
winds of heaven. This would delight Alphonse Karr, who
justly complained in one of his books, that the people who
were the least warmly clad were always the most exposed to
cold.
There is a plentiful show of steam-engines of every system
and shape; but without attempting to describe them all, we shall
merely cite BerendorfPs tubular boiler containing moveable
tubes, which can be taken to pieces and cleaned with the
greatest ease, and Breval's portable vertical steam-engine, the
whole machinery of which rests on the boiler, rendering it
simple and inexpensive.
Quetel Tremois has some ingenious machines for sawing,
planing and cutting wood, which work with a regularity not
to be expected from hand labour, and which offer a great
saving of time.
Noel's soap-mill is also worthy of attention; it chops up.
the soap, and grinds it into a fine paste, to receive the necessary
colour and perfume.