The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-11-01
GENERATION OF POWER.
Petroleum Utilized as Fuel-A Discovery OF
Unparalleled Importance to the Arts.

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Unparalleled Importance to the Arts.
New York Cor. Cincinnati Enquirer.l
Mr.. S. G. Salisbury, mechanic, has
been Mt work for twenty years on plan
to utilize petroleum for fuel in produc-
ing steam. He has hit il, and is in fair
way to make fortune. 1t was tested in
the Brooklyn Navy Yard on Saturday,
and was found to work to the utmost
satisfaction of the officers who inspected
it. The furnaces were in full blast, but
no smoke was visible. Great volumes
of white steam rolled away from the
pipe, but no coal was thrown upon the
fire below. 1t had the look of an effect
without cause.
"The most wonderful sight L have
ever seen" the veteran engineer Isher-
wood said. ut revolutionizes the iron
and steel manufacture the world over"
one of the largest iron men OF the
country exclaimed. 1T opens new era
in glass manufacture. We shall soon
have glass roofs on our houses, and
French-plate will be as cheap as COM
mon window-glass, said large glass
maker.
the perfect combustion attained, in the
intensity of heat quickly produced, in
the astonishing evaporation of water, in
the freedom from dust, cinders, sui
phur, and all impurities, that these ex-
perts at once realized that revolution
in all departments where steam is used
must occur Immediately.
The fuel is made of the residue of pc
troleum and coal tar, which is mixed to
about the, consistency Of molasses. 1t
is conducted from the barrel to the fur
mace by mean of small gas-pipe. At
the end of this pipe, as it enters into the
door of the furnace, is funnel-shaped
apparatus. AS the fuel enters this fun
mel it comes in contact with current
, of highly super-heated steam, which at
omizes the liquid so that, as it leaves
the machine, it induces the required
amount of oxygen to enter and mix at
the point of ignition. Thus the atom
lied fuel shoots, in q fierce but delicate
spray, into the blazing furnace. The
brick arches of the great furnaces are
kept at white heat, and pure white
flame flashes along the whole length,
registeringa heat of 5000 degrees, melt
ing pig iron in ten minutes, and making
liquid glass in two hours instead of six
teen. All that there is to maintain this
extraordinary heat is the slight spray
darling in from the little furnace, which
comes just within the door. Il can
send this intense white flame from the
Battery to Grace Church if have
furnace-arch that long," said the in
ventOr.
The amazing scope of this new dis
covery may be estimated from its effect
upon the oil trade alone. Mr.. Salisbury
says he is about to make proposition
to the Producers and the United Pipe
Lines for permanent contract to take
from them at Pittsburgh all of their sur
plus and all their distillate tar-naphthas at
"a price that will give the producers fully
80 per cent. profit, and also pay the pipe
lines for piping it to Pittsburgh. The
ocean-steamship business will also feel
the effect of this revolution in steam
producing fuel. Experiments already
made show that in single trip across
the Atlantic saving of about $4,000
will be effected in the freight-room
alone, as the space now taken up for 800
tons OF coal will be used for freight.
But the greatest achievement of the
new system will be in iron-making.
Said the leading representatives of this
interest: This is the grandest achieve
ment of science in this age, and this in
ventor's income, even on very small roy
alties, Will be greater than that of any
living capitalist With the mechanism
invented by Mr.. Salisbury, blastfur
mace of thirty tons per day will convert
its liquid iron into blooms or ingots of
wrought-iron or steel at cost so trifiing
that it enhances the value of pig-iron
100 per cent
4 Very 0btuse Witness.