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

The practioability of combining motive power
IN receivers convenient for transportation to any
discussed by mechanics and engineers, but
hitherto without arriving at solution Of the pro-
blem. III. Teller, a French chemist, proposes to
employ smmoniacal gas for this purpose. By
generating this gas under the pressure Of it's own
atmosphere, it is converted into liquid, which,
even at very low temperature, exerts a pressure
of seven atmospheres.
The properties upon which the new applications
OF ammonia are founded are as follows: 1. The
great solubiiity of alnmoniacai gas in water; q.
Its easy iquefaetion; 8. The faculty which it pos
sesses Of furnishing mechanical force at ordinary
temperatures; 4. The possibility of super-heatipg
ITS vapors without the necessity of high tempera-
ture; The ability to recover tho whole Of it by
dissolVing it,, and the employment of tho heat in
the preparation OF new quantities. 1t follows if
these points are established, that the gas can be
coneeted and liqueted in any place, and with q
quantity OF water three times as large one can
Vaporlze the gas, using it aS a motive power at q
pressure OF eight to ten atmospheres, an opera
tlon IN which the action will remain constant be-
cause the heat required to produce tho gas will
be formed by the calorie of condemnation disen-
gagged IN the aqueous solution. II, therefore, in
large establishment, ammonia is evolved and Ii
quehed, 1t can be transported to any spot where it
is required, and will furnish Immediately and with
out further trouble, u motive power Of the most
economical character. It's application to fire-en-
niacat gas to extinguish the ires are very obvious
advantages, il the plans Of the inventor can be
practically accomplished.
fed ammonia feroe equal to one horsepower
oan be maintained for an hour. The inventor
does not claim that this application can supersede
s1eam f,ee NJ poWerlt is simply proposed as substi
be employed An omnibus with an ammonia
engine Of two horse.poger, can be propelled eight
%Ia 5or OF Liquid amn and
With such provision, which can be repeated each
trP, the company would have simple, compact,
s easily managed motion, disengagng neither smoke
stoppage or delay, and accomplishing saving OF
hfty per cent. over the employment Of horses and
CT other means oflocomotion.
nj. Teller sums up the various applications OF
his invention as follows: 1. Adaptation to ele.
| waited railroads; 2. Circulation in tunnels and
places where the combustion OF air would prove
city railroads 4. In the working Of mines.
HEINE.-The brother OF Heine is about TO pub
lish in the Gartenlaube, a German iilustratod
paper, series Of papers entitled "Recolectione
OF y my brother Henrich Heine," specimen o.
On the relation between the poet and his nncie
solomon, r., the banker, the richest man in Ham
m ourg. Ihere was perpetual war between then
un nne 5hg tba saG}ect OF money which Heine like thu
R1et tnat ne was, despised, and which his uncle
Ike the banker that he was, loved and boarded
which did, did not however, prevent him from giving
hs rasu sums ,i. IN charity He was generous t
} tured him on his extrayagance, a circnmstanc
which m ,s Leo he former to leave Hamburg as Otter
90 ho Soo.u huuoo LIB uncle 10 give him mOney "a
travel with. On one occasion, after he had An
shed his tragedy OF "Radcli," he found the bank
or at breakfast, In good humor, and announced T.
which It's scenes were laid-England. aao.
, said Uncle Solomon. SAY, but living is dear /
England" "You received money not long since.
. "True, that will do for my expenses; but for In
D honor OF the name want a decent credit wit
D Eothschild." A letter Of credit for ten thousap
: francs was given him, with the understandin
that it was only matter Of form, and was not
be used, his mother having put into his purse on
Q hundred louis dor. In less than twenty-fou
hours after his arrival In London, Heine presen
: ed the letter to Baron James Won Rothsohild, VIII
0 oashed It. A few days later, when Unole solomo
opened bis letters at breakfast he found one frol
Baron James, telling him "that he had had Ga
extreme pleasure OF making the personal a.