Wilmington daily gazette., 1873-07-24
A fIroIess LocomosIyo.
From the New York Post.

The question OF quick transit by motor power
other than horses Is sOon to be solved in Brooklyn
by trial of Emil Lamm's thermo-specihc or fire.
less loeomotiyo be trial q to take place on the
BrQoklyR and RockaFny Bench Railroad YPet4 4een
Ear Ne KplE and Nanaitla, within u net ten
Reid, aa yell a. Mr.. VIM. Richardson, pf thu At,
tantc Avenue HORSE Railroad, Is largely intefest-
ed in the success Of the new power. and has erect
ed boiler house, together with the necessary ma
chnery for furnishing the steam for the trial. The
works erected are substantially built, and look as
il the gentlemen interested were well satisfied with
;he nnocess Of the prosOt. The engine for the trial
now building ct one Of the williamsburg iron
works, and Will be finished In few days.
Ths engine O machine tGr ProPelling street cars
now for upwards of year. Il issaid to accomplish
all the work which an ordinary staam ergihe is
capable Of doing, and is void Of all danger OF ex-
plosion. The working Of the engine and manner
Of communicating the power Is as follows; The
tank on the truck or car which is to contain the
motive power is filed with about three hundred
gallons Of water is heated at the depot at the be-
ginning Of each trip by being connected for four
minutes more or less 10 the stationary steam boil
er. In this manner enough heat is forced into the
water of the tank to enable the car to travel nine
miles and have o surplus of power left at the end
OF each trip. 1t requires less skill to drive one Of
the engines on q car than to drive horse, for all
driver has to do to stop the is to turn faucet
and TO apply his brake, and start again he simply
opens the faucet and let's go. From appearances,
any ordinary car.drivet can be learned to manage
one of these engines in two or three trips.
The inventor claims that the engine will run as
well during our cold winters it does in the mild
er temperature Of the South. at a former test of
one of these engines 1t drew load Of ironsweigh-
ing 7,135 pounds, together with fourteen passen-
gers six miles, and with this load the steam guRge
indicated at the end Of the trial variation in
steam pressure only slightly below the usual ex-
penditure of steam in ordinary trips. The cost Of
a complete apparatus and truck to draw one car
or more amounts to about 81, 900. The trial about
to be made at East New York is with special en-
CINE, which is intended to draw one or mere cars,
as the case may be. With the use Of this engine,
which employs no FIRE, and therefore makes no
smoke, and allows of no escape of steam, It an
ticipated that It will be less Objectionable than
horses, and 0s there Is nothing about it to scare
carriage and truck horses, no exceptions can be
raised on thai account. Should this engine be
adopted and prove successful as anticipated, i,
VIII furnish medium of communication with the
suburbs Of Brooklyn of vast importance to all liv-
ing within six miles Of the feres, the inventor
claims that the car will run from the fer1es to
East New York In twenty-five minutes, which will
be saving Of thirty-dve minutes over the present
running time, which Is one hour.