The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1891-08-25
A FELINE MOTOR.
The Marvellous Machine Invented
by a Western Genius.
Cats Utilized to Furnish Electricity for
Illuminating and Other Purposes
Steam Engines Mo-
where.

Prof Richard belong, the inventor
of the new feline motor, says a Slough
ton (Wis.) correspondent of the New
York Sun, is tall, pale-faced man
with three-story, bay-window fore
head overhanging pair of deep-set,
sky-blue eyes, set on each side of a
large, thin, hooked nose. He is not a
beauty, but he is a genius.
His feline motor, which is at present
creating such a sensation in scientific
circles in Stoughton, is a marvellous ma
chine, unique in appearance and won
derful in operation. 1t may be de-
scribed as a curious combination of
large and small fy-wheels, great bal
ance-wheels, bright steel rods, and an
almost innumerable number of coils of
copper wire, all joined to brightly
polished cylinder of brass, one end of
which projects into wire cage filed
with ordinary cats. Its operation is
very simple, but surprising in its re-
suits. A slight pull on a small nickel
plated lever starts the machine. Then
like lightning from out the end of the
cylinder projecting into the cage there
shoots a long steel arm and hand, grab
bling one of the cats by the nape of the
neck and yanking it into the cylinder,
where it disappears with yell of more
than feline terror. In moment the
fy-wheels, the great balance-wheels,
and all of tie complicated machinery
begin to move, at first slowly, but soon
with startling rapidity. AT the proper
moment, which is indicated by small
clock-lilze attachment, the operator
pulls another lever, when from out of
the other end of the cylinder, with hair
and tail erect, scintillating eyes, and
caterwaul dislocating to ones spinal
column, the cat is projected into a tub
of cold water prepared for its reception.
This operation, surprising as it may
seem, extracts from the cat electricity
equivalent to the power represented by
ten horses, working for one hour, and
this power can be stored into the
cylinder until needed. As cat can be
run through the motor every three
minutes, and all the accommodating
electricity be stored, the power of the
machine is practically limitless. The
same cat can be used every ten hours
without the least impairing its health
and general usefulness.
The professor is iubilant over the
success of his invention. He is satisfied
that he has overcome every difficulty,
and intends soon to put the machines
upon the market In speaking of the
origin of the invention and the probable |
results of its use. he saws:
II have long believed that the cat is
natures Leyden jar, charged with an
enormous amount of electricity, but in |
such manner as to require peculiar
process to extract it. This process it
las been my good fortune to discover.
The discovery will be of incalculable
benefit 10 mankind. 1t Will revolution
re the mechanical world, and will be
cit in every department of life. By its
means every family, no matter how
'oor, can have its home brilliantly. !
ighted with electricity at less cost
han to have it poorly lighted with
erosene. By simply running the now
ractically useless house cat through !
be machine twice each day a sufficient /,
mount of electricity can be engendered I
D illuminate brilliantly any medium !
lied house. Think how advantageous
would be to large city. Take New i
'ork for example. Carefully compiled =
tatistics show that there are at present :
yithin the city limits 9,998,3 47 cats.
his represents very nearly 20,OO0,O00 !
ontinuous horse power, or enough to :
ght the entire city and furnish all the 7
lotive power needed to do its work.
he feline motor will do away with r
cam. Ten years from now venture q
} say there will not be steam engine :
/ active operation in the United .
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