The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-07
THE NEW GIANT MOTOR.
Bisulphide of Carbon and Petro-
leum to Supersede Steam.
Special Co Tespondence Of the Star.

Special Correspondence of the Star.
New YORK, Feb. 4, 1880.
I send you an account of the new
Motor that is creating a sensation among
engineers and capitalists of this city.
Accounts Of its remarkable qualities
have been published from time to time
in our local press, and the thing has
been examined critically by several ex-
perts, who pronounce its achievements
extraordinary. A company has Just
been formed in this city, with capital
of $5,0O0,OO0, and some of the very
soundest business men of New York are
represented in it, among whom are Henry
F. Hamill, Of the Delsmater Iron Works
president Of the Company, John L.
Douglas, VIM. NJ Force of Newark, N.
j., Willis Van Tyne, James Il. Rees Of
Pittsburg, and other solid men.
The company will inaugurate their
great invention by a public exhibition
of its qualities under the auspices of
President Morton, of the Stevens Insti-
tute, of Hoboken. N. j., and steamboat
has been purchased for the purpose,
which is to be adjusted and the public
test made Immediately. The extraordi-
nary properties of bisulphide Of carbon
have been long known, but no one has
hitherto discovered the means of util-
izing its forces until recently when its
union with petroleum solved the ditfi-
Guilty. By its use in the manner NOW
applied it may be used with the ordinary
steam engine without any change what
eyer nor even the turning Of screw fur
ther than the addition of a condenser to
condense the vapor after it has been
passed through the engine cylinder by
connecting a pipe from the exhaust, and
also connecting another pipe from
the escape or safety valve
with the condenser. In use
the bisulphide Of carbon is stored in a
tank under the condenser; the water is
filled in the boiler the same as for steam,
and heated little more than luke
warm, say l40 to 200; then when power
is wanted the pump is set in motion to
inject the bi-sulphide Of carbon into the
heated water in the boiler. It instantly
vaporizes and fills the steam chamber,
and thenceforward acts precisely as
steam, only more dense, and with greater
force. A full head Of power, say from
60 to $50 pounds to the inch, may
at any time be obtained in three
minutes, and turned of at will.
1t is claimed that three-fourths Of
the fuel required for steam is saved
by its use, and that the vapor acts like
hydraulic pressure rather than explo-
sive like steam or gunpowder. On rail-
road locomotives at one sweep it renders
water-tanks useless, a locomotive boiler
once filled can be run to California and
back without change or replenishing, and
the same on ocean steamers A very i'm
portant popularity of this vapor is that
when sudden need is felt for addi-
tional power, as for instance, on an up
grade on railroads, this is not procured
by an increase Of the fire, but by in
jecting an increased quantity Of BIZ
sulphide into the boiler by means of the
pump. Thus in one minutes time the
power can be raised by the engineer one
hundred pounds and taken off at pleas
ure. Bisulphide Of carbon vaporizes at
10 degrees of heat; water at 212. 1t ID
claimed that the New York elevated
railroad cars can be run without fires at
all, lugs Of heated iron to be applied at
either end, yielding abundant heat for
the supplying Of the requisite vapor.
No incrustation of boilers takes place
with this agent, as is often the case in
ordinary steam boilers.
As soon as the pablo test shall have
been made by the Stevens Institute on a
steamer, locomotive is to be fitted up,
and its adaptability to railroad purposes
will be shown. Of course the gem
tlemen composing the company,
and who put their money into
this have witnessed its operations and
know what it win do. The American
Engineer lately published an account Of
its merits, and the Tribune has also had
a short account Of it, but the public will
be certainly surprised at the radical rev.
olution it is destined to make in all kinds
Of motive power that now use steam,
when full accounts shall be made of its
operations in the public trial that is COM
ing off, A meeting Of the directors was
held last evening at Earle's Hotel, and
steps taken for making the public exhi.
bition of the invention SO thorough as to
satisfy all cayilers. **