The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-05-30
Ammonia as a Motive Power.

The practicability Of confning motive power
in receivers convenient for transportation to any
place where the works. to be done has often been
discussed by mechanics and engineers, Dat
blem. NJ. Teller, French chemist, proposes to
employ ammoniacal gas for this purpose. BY
generating this gas under the pressure OF lts own
atmosphere it is converted into liquid, which,
even at very low temperature, exerts pressure
of seven atmospheres.
The properties upon which the new applications
of ammonia are founded are as follows: !. The
great solhbility Of ammoniacal gas IN water; q
It's easy liquefaotion; g. The faculty which 1t pos
sesses of furnishing mechanical force at ordinary
temperatures: A. The possibility of experimenting
its vapors without the necessity OF high tempera-
ture; 5. The ability to recover tho whole OF it by
dissolving it, and the employment OF the heat IN m
the preparation of new quantities. 1t follows, II
these points are established, that the gas can he
collected and liquefed in any place, and with
quantity of water three times as large one can
vaporize the gas, using it as motive power at
pressure of eight to ten atmospheres an opera
ton in which the action will remain constant, be,
cause the heat required to produce the gas Will
be formed by the caloric Of condensation dlson-
gagged in the aqueous solution. II, therefore, in
large establishment, ammonia is evolved and IL
que6ed it can be transported to any spot Wnere IL
is required, and will furnish Immediately and with
economical character. Its application to tire-en-
gines, and the further employment OF the ammo
nacal gas to extinguish the fires, are very obvious
advantages, if the plans Of the inventor can be
practically accomplished. e.
It is claimed that with twenty pounds OF lique-
fed ammonia force equal to one horsepower
osn be maintained for an hour. The inventor
does not claim that this application can supersede
steam power-itis Is simply proposed as supsu,
tute Tor steam, in places where the latter cannot
be employed. An omnibus with an ammona
engine of two horsepower, can be propelled eight
miles with forty pounds OF liquid ammonia and
one hundred and twenty pounds of cold water.
With such provision, which can be repeated each
trip, the company would have simple, compact,
easily managed notion disengaging neither smoke
nor Yapor, always ready, whatever be the time OF
stoppage or delay, and accomplishing q saving OF
fifty per cent. over the employment OF horses and
CT other means OF flocomotion.
NJ. Teller sums up the various appncations VI
his invention as follows l. Adaptation to ele-
vated railroads; 2. Circulation in tunnels and
places where the combustion of air would prove
destructive; 3. Employment on cross roads and
city railroads 4. In the working OF mines.
HE1NE.-The brother of Heine is about to pub
lsh in the Gartenlaube, German Illustrated
paper, a series of papers entitled "kecoilections
of INV brother Heinrich Heine," specimen OF
which has already appeared, and which touches
on the relation between the poet and MS nncle
Solomon, the banker, tho richest man III Ham,
burg. There was perpetual war between thom
on the subject of money, which Helne, like INC
| like the banker that he WIS, loved and boarded
which did not, however, prevent him from giving
away largo sums in charity. He was generous to
his brilliant but erratic nephew though he lee
tured him on his extravaganza, circumstance
which led the former to leave Hamburg as otter
as he could induce his uncle to give him money tc
travel with. On one occasion, after he had Tin
his Of Rado he Dn found tine 1ap
i him ~ that he wished to visit the country il
which y its scenes were laid-England.. Go
said Uncle Solomon. Gay, but living is dear il
England" ssYou received money not long since (,
"True, that will do for my expenses; but for tn
9 hs name W want cea decent s ten efi hOussnt
tfsais ns WAS ossy sysa matter Of and not
h ans mother do having gs gu sn ns3 his ye
honrs after his arrival in London, Heine present
i ed the i letter to Baron James Won R9thschd whe
few days stsF when en- nns GnGS ene soGmS1 pon
Raron lanes. telling him ''that he had had tai
extreme pleasure OF making the personal &c