The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1876-08-17
AnImportant Discovery-Perhaps

The Chicago IsnaeS says: yesterday
we were shown what promises to be the
most wonderful invention of the age,
and one which promises to revolutionize
our entire domestic economy. 1t is
nothing less than substitute for fuel.
produced at comparatively no expense,
and by the application of the simplest
scientific eontrivance. The invention
is denominated the hydro-carbon burner
and gas generator. By the application
of the invention, ordinary coal-oil and
water may be made to produce heat
enough to run an engine, propel ma
chinery, heat a cooking-stove illumi.
nate mansion, or perform any other re-
suit usually accomplished by means Of
wood or coal. By its use the most diff
cult mechanical problems are to be
solved in the future. The burden of gas
monopolies will be abolished, and the
new system of generating heat from
water and oil will astonish the scientist
as the unschooled and undisciplined
mind. The process is not complicated
or mysterious. 1t is simply the result
which overwhelms the mind with its
wonderful possibilities. Prof. Ken
dali, the well-known chemist, who has
experienced with this invention, says
that all the fire to do the cooking and
washing for six persons, seven days,
can be produced for so cents. The
apparatus burns from one-fourth to
seven-eighths as much water as it does
any other combustible fluid, and pro-
duces result which can not fail to fill
every one with amazement who wit
nesses its operations. For household
purposes it is unexcelled. There is no
dust or filth, smoke or disagreeable
scent about it. Gas can be furnished
from any cooking stove to illuminate a
house for so cents per thousand feet.
The light produced is clear, bright and
steady, far superior in quality and illu-
minating properties to the ordinary gas
produced from coke, which costs from
$3 to $3.50 per thousand feet. The at
tachment can be made to any stove,
range or furnace, or motive power, with
entirely satisfactory results. A patent
has been procured, and the inventor, a
very eminent scientific gentleman, is
now prepared to enter the field, and
capture the public with an invention,
obvious on sight, and more use
full to civilized man than
could be the realization oil
the widest dreams created by the al.
legged claims of the Kelley motor, which
have created so much comment and in.
terest in the public mind. The sim.
plicity and practicability Of this appa.
ratus can be determined on sight, and
it is destined to go into general use as
soon as its merits become generally
known to the public It has been ex.
amined by scientific men, and the prin'
ciples of its foundation have been pro.
nounced sound and in accordance with
chemical science. Its discovery is more
valuable to mankind than the alche
mist's stone. By means of it the suffer
ings of the poor will be ameliorated and
their sufferings assuaged. The inventor
of cheap fuel may indeed be called ,
benefactor to his kind, and the blessing,
of the world will follow him. Tn.
genuineness and utility of this great ant
wonderful invention is destined soon tt
be acknowledged by the world at large
for truth is irresistible.