Morning journal and courier., 1888-01-09
ANExrRAoRprNARY AN ENG1NE.
All the Recent Great Discoveries Dis- sanced-ScientIhc Sketch of the Mar veIEWooden Nutmegs Ahead.

All the Recent Great Discoveries Dis.
 tanced-ScientIflc Sketch of the Mar
 veI-Wooden Nutmegs Ahead.
 The revolution of steam power has recent. ly become favorite and profitable pastime among the contemplating inhabitants of the town of Bristhalf, which is in the center of Connecticut but it was not until one of the revolutionists made an engine that set in motion 5O,O0O cold 'scart wheels'' that the possibilities that lay in this sort of revolu- tionizing were fully realized, and that it only wanted the proper sort of reyolutionizer to make everything revolve.
 The last man to come to the front has brought an engine in his vest pocket, which is destined to make more revolutions than: anything hitherto invented. Its construction is very simple. It consists of only three parts, viz: Two holes and the space which separates them. By this construetionsandA the addition of an automatic water clock: it is expected to avoid all ssback water'i pres sure and make the revolutionary movement of the ''eold cart wheels" continuous and in one direction-that is, from the crank end of the engine to the hole which constitutes the other end.
 The engine is made in the form of a hanger to enable it to more easily hang up anyone who wants to be hung up, but it can be made in any other form which the type of zcrank appear to those who are acquainted with the action of the ordinary form of enginein this new invention, the hanger is hung up, the cylinder, which is made of lead pencil with the lead bored out with gimlet, issinside the hanger, the piston is inside the cylinder, and
 the steam pressure comes on the end of the piston instead of on top of the valve as in ordinary engines. The valve seat has but sixty-four square inches of steam pressure I upon it, which is great advance in engine construction, as it enables the engine to be easily made automatic in it's action by just | simply standing the engineer on the remain | ing portion of it. When but 8 small portion of the power which the engine is capable of exerting ia | wanted he stands on one foot, if more power | is required he stands firmly. on both feet, | when & tolerably heavy load has to be driven he sits squarely upon the valve, and when \ the full power is to be exerted he Hays | down" on it. Thus it will be seen that the | automatic action is much more simple, cer- tain and delicate in it's action than thatsof ordinary engines. c-rsS v Another advantage possessed by the valve \ used on this engine is that it cuts of and ad-
 mits steam to the piston four times in one
 revolution, thus giving the engine very | quick motion. It is hoped that further inn | provements will be made which will enable | it to take steam eight times during each rev olution, by which the speed will be quad
 rupled, as it is 8 well known law of inechan-
 ics that the speed of an engine increases di-
 rectly as the square of the number of times
 steam is admitted and cut off at each stroke | the second power of the square root of the
 stroke of the junk-ring minus the stroke ot piston, and the sum of the infinite serfei formed by constantly dividing the tangend
 of the angle of inclination of the seat of the ! shifting valve to the stem of the throttle
 valve, and these decreasing theleads and iq | creasing the steam pressure until the desired speed is sattained.-Hartford Courant