Los Angeles daily herald. [volume] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1873-1876, 1874-05-20
STEhM'S DAYS NUMBERED.
A Mechanical Discovery of IncOnceiv-
able Value.
From the Scientific American.

From the Scientific American.
Professor Faraday, of England, as
serts that a grain of water contains
electrical relations equivalent to very
powerful flash of lightning. Knowing
that the equilibrium of these relations
is sometimes destroyed in the heavens,
merely by change in conditions, re-
sulting in enormous mechanical works;
and as we are constantly discovering
means to change natural conditions,
the question arises (Which seems a
legitimate cne) why are not our loco
motives and steamships with grains
of water, instead of tons? The only
answer we can give, is: We have, as
yet, no suitable means to destroy the
equilibrium of these relations.
Mr.. John w. Kelly, Of Philadelphia,
has discovered a method of destroying
this equilibrium, or something analo-
gous to it, and made it the basis of an
invention by which these conditions
are changed.
By a peculiar mechanical advice
hitherto unknown, a force is generated
which can be readily applied to driving
all kinds of machinery for which steam
and other motive power is generated
and applied, without cost other than
the mechanical device or generating
machine and the necessary wear OF
machinery. The generator is simple
and comparatively inexpensive, occu-
pying but small space, and is light
compared with the requirements of
steam power; and since this power is
produced without heat, electricity, gal
vanism, magnetism or chemicals, it is
destined at an early day to revolution
ize completely the present motive
powers Of the world, by reason of the
ecoL omy of its cost and space.
THE POWER,
So far as at present evolved and tested,
has shown q pressure of fully 10000
pounds per square inch, as the follow
ing explanation will show: The prin-
cipal part of this power generator, now
in use, is made of metal, globular in
shape, about fifteen inches in dame
ter, and having walls about three
fourths of an inch thick, strong iron
tube an inch in diameter, connecting
the generator with cylinder which
is used as receiver of the power or
force from the generator. This cylin-
der is made Of charcoal iron, forty
inches in length, four and one-half
inches in internal diameter, with
screw-fitted and welded heads two
inches thick, tested to a pressure of
10000 pounds per square inch; it's ca
pacity is about three and one-f0urth
gallons. This receiver was charged
from the generator of the power in five
seconds, and the power remained
therein at least eight days without any
addition, and from it q great many
tests were made without any apparent
diminution of it's energy or force.
At the end of the charged cylinder is
attached a flexible brass conductor OF
drawn tubing, one-fourth of an inch in
diameter with a bore of one-thirty-
second of an inch, passing from cylin-
der to ceiling, and thence to the Other
side Of the room fora distance of TWEEN
ty-three feet to test apparatus or force
register; this apparatus consists or
thick bed-plate of iron, to which was
bolted and packed cylinder of foul
inches in diameter, having plungel
or piston, the area of which was little
less than one square inch in surface
Below this piston is chamber of Owe
two cubic inches, with which the tub
ing from the
CHARGED CYLINDER
Is connected. The plunger or piston
acting perpendicularly, was the poin
at which the power was applied to