The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-10-06
A NEW MOTOR.


| A NEW MOTOR.
| The sun as am Engine Driver.
/ New York SUM-
For several years Capt. John Ericsson OF
| New YORK. has been conducting elaborate ex-
periments with apparatus he has designed
the azaon q f ne hea1 OF h shH The
perfection of this solar machine and It's
adaptation to practical uses, he, perhaps has
4 hoped to make the browning achievement OF
4 a long life devoted to Invention
| His claim. enforced by the records OF many
experiments, Is that he has invented ma
chine which generates. steam SUFFICIENT 70
! drive steam engine OF one-horse power Dy
rejecting surface He, AYERS. too that there
is no limit to the extent to which, by his |
method solar heat can be concentrated. he |
has published reports Of the results ne mas
series of articles contributed to the London
newspaper called Engineering; and in @ letter
adj esstd 10 u friend il Sweden written N
1868, be said Since my experiments IN EVIL, Win
strated that 100 square feet lof reflectlng sur
. face) are more than sufficient to. produce
, force equal to one horse. 1t follows that
81 800 steam engines Of 100 horse power each
can can be set in motion by the radiating heat on
This is very startling declaration, and il |
Capt. Ericsson has hopes OF SO periectng DIS
machine that it shall force itself into general
enormous emo MOI power Of the gun which now goes
to waste. he has stimulus to labor which
will make the work, however eKhaustlng,
seem light If he is successful, his many
other inventions will seem small in com
: parison. But, though he began to publish
Che results Of his experience ten years
and eight hgys years b ego ara d
I on the public, taking his reward In the
IT,. satisfaction OF having intellectually ben
Gifted the human race, he has not yet in-,
, troduced his solar machine into practical
use. In 1870. writing in Engineering, he
declared that he must for some time with
hold from publication the plans and descrip-
lions of the mechanism by which the suns
y, radiant heat Is concentrated, and OF the steam
+ generator which receives the concentrated
= heat His motive he said, was one which
I Experienced professional men will .appre"
ciate,' that Of preventing enterprising men
: from procuring patents for notifications
. This reserve was doubtless a wise and reason
y able preeaution but there is natural i'm
patience, after all this long delay, to now hear
# from the distinguished inventor. and to see
!, his solar machine in actual operation.
: Meantime M. Mouchot, Frenchman, has
/ also invented an apparatus for the utilization
f of the SUMS rays for heating steam boilers,
= and he has the model of one at work in the
- Paris Exhibition, which, when the sky is clear,
h is used for cooking purposes: He boils water
u for three cups Of coffee in it in three-guarters
- of an hour. Mr. William Adams, of Bombay,
+ has likewise been making experiments with
- SOLAR neat Ill lUuld WlUI iG6AlUS WlliCli. ilC
IL Claims are superior to those attained by Capt
:, Ericsson. Our Swedish American inventor,
= according ohis engineering articles, obtained
" the vaporization of 489 cubic inches, OF
+ + Of a'''G Rejecting pii surface; but Mr.. Adams
d, "a AYERS Ethat he has vaporized 1893
AZ cubic inches Of water with $50 square feet OF
70 rejecting surface, and even at that his ap-
f W paratus was so imperfectly constructed as
O., ot to waste one-third of the solar heat. He
. thinks, therefore, that 1t is fair to expect
Il that with a properly made boiler, 50 square
O. feet Of self acting rejecting surface will pro-
" Of 100 feet, as estimated by Capt. Ericsson
" The rejecting surface used by Mr.. Adams is
n, series Of mirrors Of silvered glass formed
- by a combination OF flat glasses. With 10 gal
- 20 rected on the boiler at 7ao an, the Bonn
- - bay experimenter reports that he got a
r. pressure of 10 pounds at g. m., and OF 70
q pounds at $50, when the safety valve was
he he gallons of water solely by the concentrated
h le heat of the sun. Mr.. Adams is confident that
10 his plan Of gathering the SUMS rays is the
~. same as that used by Capt. Ericsson, but
"a got it, than the American inventor; and he
t be- sustalns the conclusion Of the latter, that as
,n there is no limit to the number Of mirrors
h. that can be used at once so there IS none tt
-, r the intensity or extent Of the solar heat thai
- - can be concentrated. He also finds no me
,t,y chanical difficulty in keeping the foc ON the
~, Nv boiler from sunrise to sunset.
". Mr.. Adams replies to the objection that
~ even in India the sun does not shine with uni
.a form heat throughout the day, and that there
". are seasons in which it does not appear TO
~ days together, by saying that it Is not in
~ tended to drive steam +, machinery Ia by SOFA
ha iliary to ordinary fuel, heating the ordinar.
~ ~ boilers. The plan is, that SO soon as tn
~ steam generated by solar heat in an opel
~ Il space outside the engine-room shall hav
@ oft hfuh If shall no ininntn
If into an ordinary boiler; and every poun
NJ W of steam thus supplied will effect sayinl
a od of precisely the quantity OF coal tina
s ~ the use of coal on q fine day in India can
ro3 discontinued from about 8 80 q. N. to 80
NV M, and that about one-quarter OF the Goa
nj now consumed by stationary, engines ma
ars' thus be saved. much greater saving ca
Eat ginning and working cotton, which is onl
>o' required to work during the most favorab]
,;t- season For raising water for irrigating pul
orc orc poses in such places as Sind, where raj
e e1o scarcely ever falls, and for small mills fc
1T re- grinding corn or oil, where the labor may
to- a. Interrupted without harm, solar heat, NJ
600 Adams thinks, may be depended on entlrel
o ~ for driving steam machinery.
,oIf The subject Is an extremely interesting on
,,rh and 1t is of great Importance. Therefore
re-, re- hope that Capt. Ericsson will give the publ
, ved his most matured views regarding, it, -,
ase solar heat be protitably utilized for i
yeb >,r+r e +Lo no,,p+rv vii; a vow, fyrao4 or
yer pos - ": ~ aIIya - ~; oiii g. ~ ~
>rst @ WIZ nayJ LI.1 w @ .' ~, vg F W ~
sed 1ntso po"oiiui hoipo'7 t''ione 'l'o 1oloo0
81 81 Mr. G. D. Sanders, of Parkersburg, W. VI
ny. is tall, straight, robust man, between fiji
= az az and sixty. He has not slept for fifteen year
tt' q he feels tired sometimes, but never sleep
,rly FAN n1 alavan dav We and nighfe HaaVv oniat
We have no effect upon him. At night he goes
~, ~, bed $50 as to be out of the way and Ii
s ah9 there and thinks, but does not sleep.
II a 7 49, 1lia ,~a.,aar,-, - y;o,a, ho
,oo- underwent an operation for d cataract.
'e0 was blind In both eyes. A strong leather &
g lar was firmly buckled around his neck, a.
- the attached chain passed round a bar OF t
cage. Two powerful men pulled him up,