Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1869 — Pneumatic Propulsion. [ARTICLE]

Pneumatic Propulsion.

Albert Brisbane claims to have mad# a discovery in the matter of pneumatic propulsion, whereby snbstapces enclosed in fur-tight globes, exactly fitting aerial cylinders, wfll be transmitted at the minimum rate of 200 miles an hour. The gentleman professes by liis globular device to have secured an almost total reduction of friction. The distance between Newark and Jersey City is to be the first pneumatically .connected in this manner. If it should‘succeed, of course the multiplication of the method would indefinitely ensue, and the city would be the entrepot for freight, whether mails, grain, or other sealed articles from a regioh extending hundreds of miles in any direction. Packages reaching the metropolis or going from ft, at the rate of say 200 miles an hour, would revolutionise the existing laws and modes of interstate commerce. The due effect of the principle, too, would bring Denton and London, Paris and Calcutta, Constantinople and Capetown within fabulously short trading distance, time being the .measure. Unless individuals could be passed by the same power (not a‘ few scientific men prophesy they will be, and believe' they can and should), and at the same rate, then the success of this scheme will cause passenger travel to be ridieulousiy slow alongside pneumatic freight Mr. Brisbane need only demonstrate his principled practice to secure Us universal adoption, and all will watch the progress of his experiment with great in- --■ The product of a single grape vine of the Bcuppernonr variety,. Jacksonville, Fla., sold for *lO3. | 'il '•!> . . •