The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1880-01-07
A GIANT MOTOR.
Effective Substitute for Steam POwer-Im-
pending Revolution I'm the Manner OF Run
ming Machinery.
New York Commercial Bulletinl

ming Machinery.
New York Commercial Bulietin.l
Engineers, marine underwriters, and others
10 whose knowledge the facts have come, are
deeply exercised by recent successes, in the
application Of a giant motor The power
Is obtained from bisulphide of carbon,
long known to practical chemists, but for
a century vain efforts have beeen made
to utilize it in driving machinery Among
other devices, glycerine was combined
with the bisulphide with better results,
but complete success was not realized or
claimed until very recent date, when "A
powerful and quickly generated vapor was
obtained from a mixture of bisulphde of car
bon and petroleum.
In the patent taken out by Messrs. Will
liarns, Smith & Milligan, of Pittsburg, Pa,
April l. 1879, the power is described rs an
Improvement in the motors for machinery"
The method of its operation is the transmits
sion of the chemical agents above described
from the chamber of a condenser 10 the
boiler Of An ordinary non-condensing steam
engine The boiler being filled with water
heated % about 200 degrees pressure as
high a. 20C POUNDS per square inch is
rapidly developed from the vapor
thus generated, and easily controlled.
AS more defnitly described in the letters
patent, the light or volatile portion of the
petroleum oil must be evaporated for the
purpose Of separating the gasoline and ben
zole from it prior to putting it in the boiler;
then apply the heat and charge the chamber
of the condenser; then open the valve so that
the bisulphide will be forced by the pump
gradually into the boiler; then, by contact
with the previously heated petroleum oil and
water, 1t is rapidly vapOrized, forming force
or pressure proportional 10 the quantity in
jected and the heat applied.
A tremendous energy is thus made availa-
bic for purposes of navigation, for driving
locomotive engines, and is equally applicable
through the whole range of mechanical in
dustries. The key to this success
in generating power is found in the
special adoption of petroleum to the OBJ
jet of bringing the bisulphide into control
in this respect comparable to the success OF
Morse in "harnessing the lightning"
Through this agency the bisulphide is held;
it aids in its condensation, and holds the
sulphur of the bisulphide in solution; it also
deodorizes the bisulphide. Thus the vapor
does it, work in the cylinder entirely pure.
In the application of this chemical mixture
to the steam engine, no change of screw or
bolt is required-nothing more than the ad-
dition Of a condenser and pipes to connect
the exhaust" and the escape" The con-
tents of the boiler are returned without waste
in an unendng circuit, the action of the bisul-
phide being in every respect the same as
steam.
a perfectly uniform pressure can be pre-
served. As it is governed by the pump alone;
other wise, on the amount of
bisulphide injected into the boiler,
and not by the heat of the furnace
This system enables the engineer in any
emergency TO obtain instantly from 100 to
200 pounds pressure, or more if desired,
without any alteration or change of the fire.
A locomotive engineer, for example, when
approaching a heavy grade, has but to use
his pump injection and hold his power until
the ascent is made,
On elevated railways the new motor could
De employed with incalculable advantage, at
once removing all the fire. smoke, and
cinders, and no noise arises from the escape
and exhust. Merely bolt of iron-just this
and nothing mOre-heated in a furnace at
the end of the route will produce all the heat
needed 10 generate power. Again, the new
agent i affirmed to be absolutely non-explo-
sive; il acts on boilers as hydraulic pressure,
and can not be made TO explode
Bisulphide vsporizes at 40 degrees, saw
ing - per cent. of fuel compared with
steam on the same engine.
1t i obvious, if this claim can Unsupported,
that bisUlphide introduces new era in ocean
navigation, as fuel becomes a comparatively
small item of expense, cargo space is saved
and steamers are relieved of the enormous
weight of coal tonnage. On locomotives,
too. the change introduced is almost as radi-
cal, as tenders will be abolished; they will
be no longer necessary appendage. The
insignificant amount of 100 pounds will pro.
pei Il L. horse power-engine; and the cost of
isulphide is now about 10 cents per pound
(it can be manufactured for three cents)
and "a it is used over and over, the introduce
ton Of the new giant motor must necessarily
mean = sweeping revolution ola character
more radical and far-reachng than can well
be imagined.
The new power of chemical vapor" Is ex-
hibited at No. 307 Eleventh avenue, and, ac-
cording to Engineers Charles II. Haswell,
Edwin L. Brady, and Others, has been sub
jected 10 thorough practical tests with most
promising results. Mr.. Brady says ''the
DAYS ofsteam are nearly numbered, of which
more viii be known very soon.