ELECTRICAL SEWING-MACHINES.
An ingenions Frenchman, M. Cazal, , alarmed at the fatigue occasioned by " working sewing-machines by the feet or the hands, has imagined an electrical arrangement, by means of which I the wheel of the machine is turned, and the stitching produced in the ordinary ] manner. This is effected by a moderately , strong electric current emanating from a i small battery placed npon the ground, the positive and negative wir^s of which S are connected with a series of electric- 1 magnets, acting upon alternating pieces J of soft iron. The person who works the c machine cuts off the current, or allows it 1 to pass, at will, by pressing a small button upon the table. The arrangement is I ingenious, but perhaps a little expensive. 2 [t- would be necessary also to use a bat- 1 bery which evolved no acid fumes, or to s place it outside the house. , 1
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Southland Times, Issue 1080, 28 December 1868, Page 2
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153ELECTRICAL SEWING-MACHINES. Southland Times, Issue 1080, 28 December 1868, Page 2
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