New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-11-23
A QUEER MOTOR TO BE TRIED.
MIR. sECoR TALKS ABOUT HIS NEW VESSEL.


HE SAYS SHE WILL 90 THROUGH THE WATER LIKE
ROCKET THROUGH THE AIR.
The slender little craft which has Deen
slowly approaching completion at Poiiions snpy"ru
under tho direction OF Is becoming an object
n, grant nterest Sho will be launched In few days
While the hull has been lying the ways engineers ana
scentiac men, naval officers from Washington, tho
Japanese embassy and the simply curious nave peen
over TO look at and guess what Is inside OF ner anu
how she Is gong to work For on these points her
builders maintain the closest secrecy and the rule NO
admttance 1, rigidy enforced, Tho scientific papers
have been publishing articles upon the possible appea
tou of the principle on she is to runhe explosion
Of gnsesand men about town have been discussing the
business aspects OF the matter
It has long been undorsood. By non-professona
people that white the engine has nearly realized
the limits OF its efficiency. there is still an enormous
oss OF energy the transmission Of the power OF ages
OF sunlight condensed the form Of coal To the reyoY
Ing shaft or that does the work SO uselu ~
the world The engine is simply an intermediate
sgcnt between the power dormant IN the coal anu tue
work TO DO done certain reasons well known 10 the
student Of ply sizes, the percentage transmitted Dy tnis
agent can lever exceed certain figure. Some authOr
ties place this amount low four per cent Hence
there food for the widest imagination In the posi-
buties OF what night be accomplished II the engine
could be dispensed with and the power gener'
ated by chemical action from coal OF Vha'
mite applied directly to useful work.
EJ,son ia wrestling with this problem in the held OF
cscfyiraI englueerlng trying to develop All electric
current directly IRON the combustion OK cool "lnouho
intermediate engine and dynamo . ,,
ioln sccOr IN speaking OF the boat said to TRIBUNE
reporter sue will b. drVon through the water as a
rocket is driven through the air" .,
I s oasy To- understand that If the gases generated
by chemical change In the 100000 pounds oi dyhahiIs
expOsionsby suitable apparatus ana Ia slch way t.se h
each explosion would occur between pS,so. au ,
mass water behind 1t, there "Vla DC po"er
drive the Eastern back ana torth across the ocean
Ike frrrybout" "IL" says Mr.. SecOr. tho genera,
1n of gas by the rapid combustion Ola rocket, ana
ncnV against the elastic air - iucrlm drives tbc
rocket forward with It's characteristic rdpldy su .oce
an uyclding luelastc body Of wafer from tue stern
drive tna vessel along at Sood ol 7poe"
The success or failure OF aucn OF the force would
depcnd on the perfection OF the arrangements Oy when
t s to be applied SLOWLY ann Una itpyyiTeiV ns in the
bomb Mr. maintains tnat ls invention. VIII luI-
u" 5s,ro we uaJe model or did anything else" said
no we subittcd our IDEAS Professor Anthony, who
MI. tho chair of Physics IN Cornell University. He
studied over them for two three days, Experimental
in biz laboratory and finally told that he thought the
thing would work II IL does work roS II T be y' ny
menn 1%Dsi is this: An ensineer viii tell you
| trnt steam engine would reatlLe
opy par, Of the energy the coal that is shoveled
boilers because only tGet neas ,n
pcraturc which the steam enters inc engine cy
and that nc which Is liberated into the exhaust OF con-
"nser "a available Bat IN tLl case rays the pro!es
sor the rnngc Of temperature during lhe @ H.
te gases Is greater tuan III the case Oistea anu ucIe
for "A er
I'D IN "A, been stated BY high authority th1t the gJs
engine To become vastly more economical source ci
nower than the steam engine Now. ours s gas engine
bH he power is applied directly and continuously rom
fbe cylinder wit hunt crank ana the resultant reclp
r0c,ttng MOTION We built little model be ore we pc
gn work on this aud II worked satisfactorily Maen the
nnver go. applied II started of almost instantly ana at
ood rate ~ speed from the first There is one great
dyunagr ln olir which alone Ought TO make u
s.ful II II works all! That is.in doing away win
the Droprer shaft steamer ltlsimposslOe 10 nsAe
| largc vessel per.cctly rigged denectoh ot thteT
inches would not DO noticeable III Nesse'
Innr and
| 1cction on "a revolving steel shaft is to increase
| enormously the strainupon u ana ths irlcton ht
fs hearings This what causes the breakage OF inc
safts OF - many steamships IL Is only question ol
Tine when tnc shaft Of every seagOnS vessel VIII oteaE
n was thls that broke the DolrhuS smart is All
rouseuso 10 say that there was naW IL H. ~ coH.
ta,ued "a good material rs was ever usel Al tho nSt
t the mn power OF the engines was put npon anu
stood the stra n When they cdmc to turn around h lhe
SnnJ th, Mot rlug TO her down TO hdI speed, rs
+. nsua But tho officers said Go nhoad - lni speed
Ne are tcsnC her. they went ahead at lul speel;
the nrn was put hard down aud the stern o te fesSei
suuny violently 10 side or course tue nun as
snrnng slightly aud the shaft with IT, While mus OUT oi
line N WAS stl compelled to icvolVc ~ It's hShe''
| mood mo result almost uuaVOldJpci u bIoho'
NJ have only part OF our machinery IN. AFTER every
,b IA t1nt about the hull, ~ proved by HUNG il WIN
WAFER we Sha launch II, PM I'D Tue resi- VI 'ho !" "
| .hiuorv nd then be tOI % trial lrln'