Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-22
DIR. Hollands Invention.

Mr.. EDITOR: Considerable interest
has been crea ed among some of your
influential citizens, as am informed,
to know more of DR.. Hollands Inven-
ton.
And, frat, let US get the name of the
apparatus correctly. Not Hydraulic
Retort as your typo had it, but Hydro
Carbon Retort. To express all that is
covered by DR.. HIS nine patents. the
title, as found in his circulars, reads,
Hollands Hydro Carbon Ketort,"
and DISQUALIFICATION Illuminated, +"
and 'ERetort Steam Boiler" for fur
nishing heat, light and power without
the use of either wood or coal.
All expressed in this title is done by
water and crude oil. Oil itself Will
not maxi, mparatIvely, much BIT a. I,
and the res u Is OF Mr.. HIS invention
u. ponds up: burning water. or rather
,ho elements which compose the water.
Aud AT this point lies TIE my stery III
TIE minds of mui tiLudes, and we al
most hear them say, Il 10 not believe
any one can get fire out Of water"
In reply we assure them that in the
very water GDey dunk to cool the ra-
gIng fever there is wIai p4d up the
Two most powerful agencies for cIe-
atIug neat that cau be found.
Il would afford Us much pleasure to
Introduce Your readers TO our Appa-
rasus IOou and demonstrate the above
statements, as was done this day TO the
great satisfaction of an Intelligent
gen itmau OF ] rf7rsoU C 'unty.
Ihougn Cnemists have b Ell able to
decUmpJse water for u lOUg Time, and
burn tue two gasses mo when II Is
resolved, VIZ: Hs drOgen and Oxygen,
10 Que has ever UIs cLSsed the s. mpie
method of dong IL as Or. II. has done,
aud never before hun has any one been
able to utilize these agencies for
all he puTp, s75 included III MS nine
patents.
I is entirely new to invent a little
apparatus, 10, five incuches square, TO
be put into any ) owe, old or now, and
Create heat OH Of water greater than
any wood or coal could generate in
the same length If Time. aad make,
out of the same apparatus, at the same
time, the gas to light the house. No
scholar ever Yet produced sucn
I6SullS DIS uulIl AIs
showed the world how to do it.
Many scientists have long known
that water mad in it the power To do
all that DIR. II. has evoked from it, but
no one OF them could see how to make
that power of universal applica ion.
Then, ag AIN, it may be said that DR..
IL. s method of deCompO3ing the water
is new. We never attempt to do it
hot n 10 hnrafnrn nr II
does it by superheating the water and
then bringing il In contact with the
carbon of the oil. In this way the
hydrogen and oxygen of the water
are separated. The former-the light
est of all known substances and The
most ipfAm mable-is set on fire,
which is enlarged and Intensified by
the oxygen and carbon. La our ap
paratus room We are accustomed to
keep these two powerful elements
which compose water to show visit
ors some of their wonderful properties,
aud during our scholastic year all our
students can witness the brilliant aud
Instructive experiments with these two
gases. We can decOmp0se the water
and present to the eye of the observer
the formation out of the water of
the two gases, or kinds of
air as they seem to be, and
then we take them separately and
showing their properties
thus satisfying the Tet1ectin, That III
the wafer, as the globe, We have all the
fuel needed TO melt the solid earth and
turn IL into a VapOr, and TO bow 1T in
to millions of atoms.
Knowing sucU to be the nature of
Water, il is not difficult 10 believe
what st. Peter says: The heavens
stall pass away With q grt at noise aud
the elements ahall melt with ferve0t
heat, the earth also, anu the WORKS
that are therein shall be burned up"
God only peed to touch our oceans
in order 10 anDihilate this p'auet
| intended in this article to detail
some of the experiments made with
II = Retort, but [ must reserve this
Ter my next artIc e.
Iu conc usiOB, let me say l am now
hoping DIR. II. will visit Tennessee be-
fore long, brlngIng along Retort for
ibis Institute. | am sure many of
your citizens will like TO see him.
p NJ. BARTLETT, President.
MaryvIlle Go lege, Oct. II, 1879.