The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-08-14
The Marvellous New Motor.

While Kelley and his Philadelphia
friends have been talking and writing
about his great invention Of motor
that is to do the work of steam at a
small fraction of its cost, John A. Hoo
tor, of Rochester, N. Y, and his back
ers, have brought the newly discovered
vapor to the test of utility for hauling
trains of loaded cars on q railway, and
driving balls and other missiles froE,
guns, large or small, employed in war.
We find in the Rochester Union over
two columns of details of these inter-
esting experiments, the material facts
of which we shall state in fewer words.
AS steam is kind of vapor generated
in one metal vessel called a boiler, and
used in another acting on q piston, 20
this new machine has two metal globes,
in one of which vapor is generated of
prodigious tension, and passes into an
other globe by connecting tube for
service as a motive power. The first
experiments in the presence of many
witnesses were made with globes about
the size of an orange applied to drive
the ball of an Enfield rifle 500 yards
into target of three inch plank, backed
by plate of iron one fourth of an inch
in thickness. The small generating
globe contained about wine glass full
of water. When the gun was to be
fired, Mr.. Hector breathed air into the
globe holding water and the volatile
material, from which the vapor was
evolved, SO much more expansible than
that of water, through an India rubber
tube. This breath of air with no ex-
plosive chemicals, discharges the gun.
On examining the target there was found
a clean out hole through the three inch
plank and the thick plate of iron be-
hind it. AS there was no report from
the gun bystanders Gid not believe the
had been fired with like result, the
from the gun, which was elevated. to
suit the range. and fired again. The
ball passed through the plank but not
through the ircn. Without once re-
charging the wineglass of water with
vaporizing material, over fifty shots
were made by count, and the inventor
said that he could shoot at rapid rate
all day and use nothing but balls and
air in the operation, except the little
water and vapor in a globe no larger
than an orange
Several gen lemen breathed into the
globe through the rubber tube and fired
the gun repeatedly, satisfying them
selves and all others present that moth
ing more was necessary to develop the
wonderful force which drove the ball
from the rifle. With such weapons war
must be wholesale murder, and civil
lied nations will be compelled to find a
better way to decide and settle their
misunderstanding.
Mr.. Hector proposed to take a train
of cars at the speed of mile minute
over one of the railroads coming into
Rochester, and the Ontario Lake Shore
railroad was rendered for the purpose of
an experiment.. The metal globe in
which the vapor was generated held a
bucket of water, and air was forced into
it by bellows worked by foot freddie.
The little engine had hardly weight
enough on the track to start the train,
which consisted of two passenger cars
and baggage car, we'll loaded with
deeply interested spectators. Our
Rochester namesake says:
At first the motion was slow and
jerky, but as the momentum increased
the pulse of the engine became more
regular, and in a few moments it was
moving as steady as locomotive. By
the end of the first mile the speed had
increased to such an extent as almost to
take the breath ont of those that were
facing the cool morning lake breeze.
The second mile the train seemed fairly
to fly, the run being made by several
timers present in five seconds less than
a minute. At the commencement OF the
third mile the cock was gradually turned
and the speed slowed Gown until a STOP
was made at the Sea Breeze, where ar
elegant breakfast had been prepared
| for the occasion.
Our readers will accept the fact as moi
very important at this distance, that the
post prandial speeches of the mayor
aldermen and others, were credieablt
TO those gentlemen. and learn with sur
| prise that thsn motor took the traiI
twenty fiya/ Sodus, and back t.
it's startil without accident. 4
railway Il It's rolling stock mus
he in excl ~ good order not t.
place pass in considerable peri