Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-01-08
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A GIANT MOTOR.
THE DAYS OF STEAM NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
REVOLUTION IN THE MANNER OF RUNNING
MACHINERY.
Engineers marine underwriters and others
to whose knowledge the facts have come, are
deeply exercised by recent. successes in the
application of giant motor. The power OBJ.
tanned from bisulphide of carbon, long known
to practical chemists, but for a century vain
efforts having been made to utilize itin driving
machinery. Among other devices, glycer-
inc was combined with the bisulphide with
better results, but complete success was not re-.
allied or claimed until very recent date,
when powerful and quickly generated vapor
was obtained from a mixture of bisulphide Of
carbon and petroleum.
In the patent taken outby Messrs. Will.
liams, Smith & Milligan, of Pittsburg, Pa, the
power is described as an Improvement in the
motors for machinery" The method of its
operation is the transmission, Of the chemical
agents above described from the chamber ofa
condenser to the boiler of an ordinary nom
condensing steam engine. The boiler being
filed with water, heated to about 200 degrees,
a pressure as high as 200 pounds per square
inch is rapidly developed from the yapor
thus generated, and easily controlled. AS
more definitely described in the letters patent,,
the light or volatile portion of the petroleum
oil must be evaporated for the purpose ofsep-
Grating the gasoline and benzole from it pri-
or to putting it in the boiler; then apply the
heat and charge the chamber of the conden-
ser; then open the valve 50 that the bisulphide
will be forced by the pump, gradually into the
boiler; then, by contact with the previously
heated petroleum oil and water, it is rapidly
ivaporized, forming force or pressure proper
toned to the quantity injected, and the heat
applied. ta3s' ~ Z, 4.
a tremendous energy is thus made available
for purposes Of navigation, for driving loco
motive engines, and is equally applicable
through the whole range of mechanical indus
tries. The key to thissuccessing generating pow
er is found in thespecial adaptation Of petro-
leum to the object 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 sui
phur of the bisulphide in solution it also de.
odorizes the bisulphide. Thus the vapor
does its work in the cylinder entirely pure.
In the application ofthis chemical mixture to
hesteam engine, no change Of screw or bolt is
required, nothing more than the addition ofa
condenser and pipes to connect the Exhaust
and the escape" The contents Of the boiler
are returned without waste in an unending cir
cult, the action of the bisulphide being in
every respect the same as steam.
A perfectly uniform pressure can be preser-
we'd, as it is governed by the pump alone 10Th.
erwise, on the amount Of bisulphide injected
into the boiler and not by the heat Of the fur
mace. This system enables the engineer, IN
any emergency, to obtain instantly from 100
to 200 pounds pressure, or more # desired,
without any alienation or change Of the lire.
A locomotive engineer, for example, when ap.
preaching heavy grade, has but to use the
pump injection and hold his power until the
ascent is made. -..
On elevated railways, the new motor could
be employed withsincalculable advantage, at
once removing all the fire. smoke and cinders
and noise arising from the escape and exhaust
Merely bolt Of iron-just this and nothing
more-heated in furnace at the end Of the
route, will produce all the heat needed to gen.
crate power Again, the new agent isafirnn-
ed to be absolutely non explosive; it acts on I.
boilers as hydraulic pressure, and cannot be
made to explode. Bisulphide yaporizes at
10 degrees, saving 75 per cent. Of fuel COM
pared with steam on the same engine
It is obvious, if this claim can be support
ed, that bisulphide introduces a new era in
ocean navigation, as fuel becomes a COM
paratively small item of expense, cargo
space is saved and steamers are relieved ofthe
enormous weight of coal tonagei On locomo.
motives, too, the change INTRODUCED is almost
as radical, az tenders will be abolished; they
they will be no longer necessary appendage
The insignificant amount of 100 pounds will !.
propel sixteenth horse power engine and the
cost of bisulphide is now about 10 cents per
pound Git can be manufactured for three cents)
and it is used over and oyer, the intro
duction of the new giant motor must necessa-
rily mean sweeping revolution OF q charac-
ter more radical and far reaching than can
we'll be imagined. ..al.isy
The "new power of chemical vapor" is ex-
hibited at No. 307 Eleventh Avenue, and ac-
cording to Engineers Charles b. Haswell, Ed
win L. Brady and others, has been subjected
to a thorough practical test with most promis.
ing results Mr. Brady says athe days of
steam are nearly numbered" Of which more
will be known very soon.-Ne,o York CONNER
cial Bulletin. -, 49,
s@ The Chicago Inter Ocean has been badly
sold by colored individual calling himself
John jackson, and representing himself as.
former slave of Gen. Wade Hampton. Jack
son graciously submitted himself to an "inter
view," in which he gave blood.curdling ac-
count his slave days on the Hampton plan
tation, represented to be in South Carolina,
detailing particularly how the slaves Of Gen.
Hampton were Aogged aud brutally pursuedby
blood-hounds. This plausible political indict-
ment was forwarded to Senator Hampton by
some humane and honest truth-seekers in
the West. "You may state two facts, if you
WISH" Gen. Hampton replied to the writer,
"in general reply to all that is here said
about me. The first is that l never owned
slave named John jackson nor ever employed"
"a contraband' by that name on my 'planta-'
ton. The second is that 1 never had aPlan-
tation or any. interest in plantation inSouth
Carolina. Inever planted outside of Missis..
sippi. With these triAing corrections the in.
terview may pass for what it is worth" a,
s@It is reported that British physician
made an examination of the breath Of boys
who were in the habit of smoking tobacco.
He examined thirty-two boys between the