Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1865-11-22
A AwONDERFUL sXyENTEOx.
The Age cG Steam Revolution
iZed.

4 brief announcement these columns
in the latter part of July. mentioned the
invention of a new steam motor tha; bade
fair to upset all precOnceiyed notions Of
the danger of steam--doing away with
explosions, for there would ba no boilers
TO explode. We were then IN ignorance
of the principle, knew nothing OF he in
ven,or or his success, and Yet were start
lei by the simple fact that such a pUinci-
pie had been born into the world.
The invention was then perfected, and
yet knowledge of it, working and ad-
yantagas was withheld from the public
until certain patents upon the vital prin-
ciple of the machine could he secured
That period has now arrived. and after
an examination into It's merits we are
prepared to admit that in its importance
and simplicity it is the wonder Of the
age.
Let the reader imagine a hollow iron
sphere two and half inches thick. and
having diameter Of thirty by twenty
two inches-fiattened at the top and bot
tom Tor convenience in putting it into its
place over n small stove OF CRATE. Inside
of this globe, which i 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 ii small bali or sprink Ter.
perforated with forty diminutive holes.
The fire is built under the globe, and in
the sprinkler Is tablespoonful of water.
Now, most people would suppose that in
order to generate steam all that would he
necessary to discharge the water in the
pipe against the hot iron. Not so. The
air in the sphere Is at temperature of
from five hundred to six hundred de-
grees by Fahrenheit's thermometer. The
water in the sprinkler is hot, and the
sprinkler soon becomes surrounded by a
superheated vapoT, into which the water
is spurted, becoming heated steam before
it can reach the surrounding sphere. This
squirting or ejectment of water from the
pipe is repeated as soon as a revolution
of the engine attached has consumed the
steam Just made, and the engine itself
a five-horse power, with a cylinder of five
inches bore aud a piston eight inches
long-is prop elled with the force of an
engine of tifteen-hOrse power, with a
pressure of l30 pounds. running two corn
mills, and turning out feed at the rate OF
forty bushels an hour. Show us anything
like that in mechanics before this inVen-
ton!
There Is actually no danger, for there
is no boiler, and only a cupful of warm
water, and the steam generated passes in
stantly into the steam chest of the en-
CINE, does its work, and eXhausts itself
in the outer atmosphere.
Ordinary locomotive boilers are usually
subjected TO a pressure of los pounds to
the square inch, having thermometrical
heat of 33l degrees, Farenheit The
thickness of the iron globe in this inven-
ton, ali 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. con-
templates the saving of forty per cent. in
fuel over the ordinary mode of genera
ting steam.
Objections have heen raised that the |
iron CLONE, or steam generator, cannot be |
durable. It is estimated, on 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 hay
ing an elasticity not attained by any 9th
er process.
The inventor Is Mr.. Ebenezer Danforth, |
of Geneva, Illinois, but the invention is !
now in the hands of a corporate compa. |
ny, of which Mr. Eoratio Allen, Pres- |
dent of the celebrated Novelty Works. |
of New York, is at the head. Its capital
IS S2, IO0,O00, and it works upon its in |
terest in both foreign and home patents.
One of these machines Is in full opera |
ton at No 90 West Lake street. and. i'll
the proprietors will permit the public to
see it, viii be uni yeJsally admitted as tho |
most important invention since the days
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