Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1880-01-16
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concentration and CONDENSATION IL
the order of events in this progressive,
hurrying age. "Mulsum in Parvo," ID
becoming more and more the popular
motto in business, in science, and in
every practical walk in life. During
the late war with Turkey the Russian
cavalry used twenty million biscuits
made OF the meal Of oats, peas and lin.
seed which were fed to the horses. The
biscuits can be threaded together by
means Of an iron wire, and q horse can
carry its own food for four or five days.
Oil pipe lines are another illustration
OF the concentration of product and
power with the highest economic re-
suits. There are innumerable illustra.
tions OF this kind to be found in every.
day life which clearly demonstrate the
truth of our statement that the ten
dency of events is toward concentra.
ton of power and products. Perhaps
one of the most novel instances of the
kind is the recent invention OF substi
tute for steam boiler. Ordinarily the
steam boiler is cumbersome; upon the
locomotive and steamboat it occupies
much valuable space. Over two.thlrds
of its interior space is occupied with
water used as reservoir of unused
force in course of production. The
steam space is also large, as, by all or.
binary appliances, reserve Of steam
must be maintained. In the new in
vention these difficulties are all OBJ.
waited. The machinery and apparatus,
as designed for a yacht, take up so lit
tie space that they are hardly to be
considered in the estimate Of the area
of the boat. The appearance of the on
CINE and steam generating apparatus
and little smoke-stack is described by a
New Haven correspondent of the Hart.
ford Courant as that of o miniature or
fairy-lik engine. Instead of boiler
cumbrous and expanded, taking mp
much room, there is little cylinder in
which are coils of pipe. In the pipe
the steam is generated. The fuel is
poured in an aperture at the top of the
cylinder, and the heating is, in brief,
just like the operation Of base-burn-
ing stove. The little engine feeds the
coils with just enough water and no
more, and the apparatus is non. explo.
sive. This was demonstrated of Colts
armory, where one of these inventions
was left to itself for days and nights,
only visited ct the proper intervals by
the man who fed it with the necessary
supply of coal, and by gentlemen in
terested in the test. The yacht in ques-
ton is only twenty feet long, and
the steam generating apparatus weighs
only $50 pounds, while the engine
weighs only 400, and boat, screw pro-
peller attached and all, weighs only
triAe over three-quarters of ton.
This is inclusive of the air chambers
(which render the boat a life-boat)
and of the water-tank. A water supply
for the engine is only four or five gal.
Ions; the waste water runs back to the
fountain in the diminutive head, and
is used over again. II this invention
is what it is believed to be, it will be
in great demand, as the Governments
torpedo boats, steam launches and life
boats will require it. This is the kind
of an engine with which Stanley ought
to have equipped his boats on his ex-
cursion up the Congo. With it he
could steam at will all over the waters
of Africa, and double the cataracts and
rapids with much smaller force than
he now probably takes with him in the
expedition that has just left Sierra
Leone for Congo,