Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-09-26
COAL AT A DOLLAR A TON
AN INVENTOR CLAIMS TO BE ABLE
TO MANUFACTURE FUEL.

HIS Process Is Chemical One and Sim
ply Endows Ignite or Inferior Coal,
Which Is Common Everywhere, with
Burning Qualities--How He Worked.
Many inventions are in the field. An
other inventor has. come to the front
with an invention which he believes will
rival even those of Edison and bring to
mankind generally degree of benefit
which will be in direct inverse proper
ton to the woe inflicted upon the indi-
viduals commonly known as the coal
barons.
What he has to offer is no less than
scheme to manufacture coal which
will be superior in its results to either
bituminous or anthracite coal, to which
the world has been 80 long accustomed
to look for its chief supply Of fuel.
So many vast conceptions have been
already brought to the attention of the
public only to end in disappointing fail
ures that every new great scheme is apt
to be regarded with suspicion. We have
not suffered from the Keely motor prof.
ect and the many plans for navigating
the air, to say nothing of the many ideas
for submarine crafts, without having
our confidence in such matters seriously
impaired.
The new aspirant for undying fame
| and incidentally for the millions of
money that are attendant upon great
| discoveries which are world wide in
their uses has at least the courage of his
convictions, and his ideas are entitled to
respect.
Mr.. Albert Edelmann claims for his
invention that it will enable him to man
ufacture his coal at cost of only one
dollar per ton. Besides the exceeding
cheapness of the new article Mr.. Edel-
mann claims for it the merit of being
absolutely odorless and capable of being
burned without smoke and being con-
sumed so utterly that it leaves but per
cent. of ashes
| Mr.. Edelmann was born in Warsaw,
Poland, in 1928, and was educated at the
| university at Dorpat one of the prov
inces of Livonia, on the Baltic sea. He
was graduated there as civil engineer,
and then made the grand tour of Europe.
| In 1852 he went to Australia, the voyage
! from London to Sydney occupying six
months.
HIS FIRST INSPIRATION.
In Australia Mr. Edelmann devoted
himself to his profession and spent his
time in building railroads and in other
engineering enterprises. In 1860 he first
| turned his attention to the discovery of
cheaper coal, and since then he has de-
voted all his time and money to that pur-
suit.
In the first place he argued that it was
well known fact that there exists upon
the surface of the globe large quantity
! of what may be termed inferior coal,
which is commonly called Ignite. Brief
: ly defined, Ignite is coal formed at a
much later period than either bitumi-
nous or anthracite coal, and therefore
without those chemical properties which
would enable it to burn as well as either
of them, and which, therefore, renders it
! practically useless for fuel or other pur-
poses.
That this Ignite would, in centuries
| to come, develop into a fuel which
might be utilized exactly as we'll as that
which was already known as bituminous
or anthracite coal was source of pain
and vexation to Mr.. Edelmann. He
could not sleep at night from his con-
tinual study of the problem. He was
actually jealous, he says himself, to
think that a people thousand years
hence would avail themselves of that
which the world might use today could
he but solve the problem of effecting by
chemical processes that for which nature
would take centuries.
A CLEAN OF LIGHT
| After study of many weary years
Mr.. Edelmann believes that he has
solved the problem whose solution he so
| faithfully sought, and is satisfied that he
has found process for Transforming
this worthless Ignite into coal, which
for all purposes is equal, and in many
instances superior, to either anthracite or
| bituminous coal.
In other words. the inventor believes
that by the mixture with Ignite of GER
tain chemical bodies coal is produced
which is as perfect as any that was ever
mined, and this Ignite, he claims, were
it allowed TO remain in the earth, would
require thousand years for it's transfer
nation into perfect coal.
In his technical description of the pro-
cess alluded to the inventor says:
"To accomplish this result the Ignite
and certain chemical bodies (Which have
first been reduced to a powdered condi-
ton in order to permit of their perfect
comminglinG are placed in molds and
subjected to great pressure in machinery
expressly constructed for the purpose,
and from which the mass comes in the
shape of what are termed, for want of a
better name, 'brickets.' These brickets
can be made of any size or shape in or
der that they may suit different condi-
tions, as, for instance, if the material is
to be used for furnaces they would be in
the neighborhood of eight inches in size
| (either square or oblong), whereas for
stoves they would be made correspond
ingly smaller. New York Herald.
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