The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-24
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For City years electricians have been try
ing 70 discover method Of converting heat
directly into electricity. rntil recently no
results Of commercial value have been OBJ
tanned. such . method seems now 70 have
been discovered or invented By . young
man fsom Name, III. H. Cox II Mr.. Co.'s
claims are just-and capitalists have conf
dence enough In them to have formed
. company with capital Of 81 90 A0o-the
whole system Of power and lighting viii b
revolusionized and steam viii be regarded
- too expensive for ordinary uses. II j. i'm
possible to estimate in advance the Inn
mense value Of Mr.. Co.'s invention, but Is
h certain that he expects almost incredible
results from II and thst he has inspired
with his confidence some of the ahrewdest
business men Of Hartford and Boston.
AS has been said, company has been
organized and Incorporated In Maine,
where Mr.. Cox was when some Hartford
men met him. Since then the business has
MI been brought 10 Hartford, and al that
has been done since has been done 1t the
factory of the Pratt & Cady Company.
The capital stock Is 81 0QO. Go, and none Of
II IL now for sale. Francis A. Pratt. Of the
Pratt 4 Whitney Company, Is the presi-
dent; X. n. Pralt,o the Pratt 4 Cady Com
pany. Is vics-president. and Ernest Cady ct
the same company. ID the treasurer. T.
Henry HYDE, OF Hyde 4 Joslyn. il stock
holder. one OF the directors, and legal Cd
visor OF the new company. All the patents
asked Tor by Mr.. Cox have been allowed.
and they viii be issued in 10 few days. Both
foreign and domestic patents have been ap-
piled for.
The apparatus used for converting the
heat into electricity Is 50 simple thai the
company does not dignity IL by the name
OF machine. By Mr.. Cox's method heat is
changed to electricity as simply q water is
changed 70 steam. His furnace is ali that
may be seen. From glowing Goals
comes the subtle current. without the aid
OF boiler, engine or dynamo. A Jet Of gas
can be made to run . dental machine. .
sewing machine, and anything which re-
quires no more power than these. No
power has ever been discovered that is half
so cheap IS will be electricity obtained by
this new process. This has teen the dream
apparently impossible of realization-of
all electricians. and even the Wixard of
MEMO park has almost despaired Of its ever
being brought about Yet . young man
the puxzling problem.
Before the company was formed Mr. Cox
had furnace ut home by which he ran
many electric lights. This furnace was in
jured in being transferred TO Hartford, and
new one Of the same size has not yet
been completed. Experiments and private
exhibitions have been conducted here on .
smaller scale. but in = short time the COM
pany intends to show 70 the world that
with the power thus obtained anything
that steam or electricity now does may be
done. Several members OF the COM
pany saw what could be done with the
furnace OF Mr.. Cox before any attempt was
made to remove IL. The one now being
built win be an improvement on the old
one. and the results from il are expected to
be correspondingly better.
Most OF the stock Of the company is
owned in Hartford. Some OF il is held in
Boston. xhe whole affair has been kept
secret until the company should be ready
10 make II public. Even now the officers
Of the company are unwilling 10 talk for
publication. but gossip about the new in
vention has been so frequent in Hartford
and elsewhere that 1t seems proper to
print general statement The officers Of
the compa say they win be ready for
public exhibition in few weeks.