The Hawaiian gazette., 1878-10-23
The Carbon Motor.

That proud song of steam commencing, "dar-
ness me down with your iron bands. be sure of
of your curb and rein" and ending of with the
grandiloquent assertion, "T'he tr0rld, the lc0rld
is mime is hushed by the advent of power
which will as effectually put the quietus on steam
as the telephone and phUnograph threaten to do
with the telegraph's industrious tick. The CON-
ing power in moving machinery is the carbon
motor. 1t is simple affair, and. without shroud-
ing the subject IN words and figures, we think
we can explain the principle TO the most super
fetal reader. Fire heats water. water generates
steam, steam confined in cylinder moves the
engine. Carbon is virtually charcoal Charcoal
can be liqui6ed by heating it in a retort with
sulphur, and the liquid is called bi-sulphide OF
carbon. When the liquid carbon is brought in
contact with certain temperature it becomes
| vapOr, as water becomes steam. This carbon
vapor in its expansive qualities is TO steam as
| 1000 to 300. Again, glycerine is heavy oily
looking liquid, capable OF retaining and transmit
| ting 30 per cent more heat than any other avail
able fluid. Now, then. the boiler is filed with
| glyceriue to hold the heat Intricate, and prevent
corrosive action of the bi-sulpbide. The bi-sul-
| pbide OF carbon is injected from condenser on
| to the hot glycerine bath, becomes vapor, moves
| the machinery by expansion. passes through
pipes TO a condenser, where it is reliqui6ed and
|
| into the boiler and vaporsed. This is the story
in nutshell. Carbon vapor is more than three
times as strong as steam. Glvcerine saves, as a
conse.vator of heat. 80 per of the fuel used
| in generating an equal steam power hence the
saving, hence the superiority OF the carbon over
the steam motor. Those who are sceptical, or
want more details, had better go down to the
Risdon Iron Works and see the machine work.
The motor has met the tests of all the scientific
and mining and railroad and steamship engineers,
and came off victorious. They handicapped the
engine 10 every possible way, drawing on all the
resources of steam experiment. and then, when
they as a de1nier resort pulled the little insig-
nifcant coke fire out OF the CRATE, the motor, not
out of pure cussedness, but purely on principle,
ran an hour and ahalf on the heat stored up in
the glycerne bath. At the test we noticed
Joseph Moore, superintendent OF the Risdon
Iron Works George Cummings e. w. Dickie
Mr.. Bailey, of the Union Pacific Railroad Com
pany MIR. Bailey, OF the Union Iron Works
Martin Bulger, of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company; John Birmingham, OF the Colorado
Steamship Company; Captain w. G. Walker
late General Superintendent of the Tide Land
|, Reclamation Company j. r. Dougine, Joseph
Austin, Il. j. Moynihan, of the Portland Boiler
Works; George K. Ames, engineer OF the Bel
cher Mining Company and Mr.. Wilson, Of the
Oentral Taciuc hallrOau company. lne tecu
meal tests the gentlemen did not try were not
worth trying and they all pronounced them
selTes well satisfied that the new motor would
save at least 80 per cent. of the fuel at present
consumed for power purposes. This is suffici
ent recommendation for the motor, if it had nc
I others, as 1t has. A company for building the
new motors for this coast was organized recently
and the names OF the directors and the practica
character Of their business suggest that with 81
r good a thing to do business with the corporation
will be very close one.-Argondla, May Is.