The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1865-11-23
Wonderful Invention. THE Age of Steam
ReVOluliOniZed.

| brief announcement in these columns,
III the latter part of July, mentioned the in
yention of a new steam motor that babe fair
to upset all preconceived notions of the dan
gers of steam-doing away with explosions,
for there would be no boilers to explode.
We were then in ignorance OF the principle,
knew nothing of the inventor or his success,
and yet were startled by the simple fact that
such principle had been born into the
world.
The invention was then perfected, and yet
a knowledge Of its working and advantages
was withheld from the public until certain
patents upon the vital principle of the ma
chine could be secured. That period has
now arrived, and after an examination into
its merits we are prepared to admit that in
It's Importance and snnplicityit is the won
der of the age Big
Let the reader imagine hollow iron
sphere two and half inches thick and hav-
ing diameter of thirty by twenty tive inch
es-fattened at the top and bottom for con
venience in putting it into its place over a
small stove or CRATE. Inside of this globe
which is not much larger than farmers
dinner pot, is a common three-quarter inch
gas pipe running to within few inches OF
the bottom, and terminating in small ball
or sprinkler, perforated with forty diminu-
tive holes The fire is built under the globe,
and in the sprinkler is a tablespoonful of
water. Nov, most people would suppose
that in order to generate steam all that
would be necessary is to discharge the wa.
ter in the pipe against the hot iron, Not
SO The air Ill the sphere is DIT tenpera-
ture of from 800 to 600 degrees by Fahren-
heit's thermometer. The water in the
sprinkler is hot, and the sprinkler soon be-
comes surrounded by a slperheated vapor,
into which the water is spurted, becoming
heated steam before it can reach the sur.
rounding sphere. This squirting or eject
ment OF water from the pipe is repeated as
sooD as revolution Of the engine attached
has consumed the steam just made, and the
engine itself "a hve-Orse power, with IA
cylinder Ut live inches bore and piston
eight inches long-is propelled with the
force OF AN epgne of fifteen-horse pow err, with
pressure of 100 pounds running two corn
mills, and turning out feed at the rate of 40
bushels an hour. Show us anything like
that III mechanics before this invention
There is actually no danger tor there is
no boiler aud only cupfuEl of warm water
and the steam generated passes instantly
into the steam chest of the engine does it's
work, and eNhausts itself in the outer atnlos
phere. s. fr fr
Ordinary locomotive boilers are usually
subjected to pressure Of l05 pounds to the
square iuch having theImometiical heat
Of 80 l degrees, Fahrenheit The thickness of
the iron globe in this invention, alt other
things considered, will bear a pressure of
about 5000 pounds to the square inch, and
heat, as before stated, Of about 500 or 600
degrees
An estimate considered moderate. cor.
templates tue saving of forty per cent in
fuel over the ordinary mode of generating
steam.
Objections have peeu raised that the iron
globe, or steam generator, cannot be dura.
BILE, 1t is estimated, on a scientific basis.
that it will last quite as long as the common
boiler
1t works well, noiselessly and rapidly.
the steam generated by this method having
an elasticity not attained by any other pro
cess.
The inventor is Mr.. Ebenezer Danforth.
of Geneva, Illinois, but the invention is now
in the hands of corporate company. OF
which Mr.. Horatio Allen, President of the
celebrated ''Novety Works." of New York
is at the head. Its capital is 81 100. 600.
and it works upon its interest in both for
eign and home patents.
One of these machines is in full operation
at No 80 West Lake street, and, if the pro.
prietors will permit the public to see it will
be universally admitted as the most impor.
tant invention since the days of Watts :
Chicago Journal.
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