english: In 1824, New York prison guard James Hardie credited the device with taming his more  boisterous inmates, writing that the "monotonous steadiness, and not  its severity...constitutes its terror," a quote many still agree with.
non_english: Leta 1824 je newyorški paznik James Hardie napravi pripisal zaslugo za ukrotitev tudi najbolj uporniških zapornikov, ko je zapisal, da je: "monotona konstantnost in ne neizprosnost tisto, kar jo naredi tako grozno," s čimer se mnogi še danes strinjajo.