Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1895-08-23
ENGINE RUN BY Alb.
POWERFUL MOTOR PRODUCED Bv An
ATLANTA INVENTOR.

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Promises 70 Accomplish Almost Perpstua
| Motion - Compressed Air the Motiv,
Powsr-said to Cost Only Half ~ Muol
| % Run NJ Either steam or Electricity.
There is being erected In Atlanta an nil
| engine that promises to almost accomplish
| perpetual motion.
| The inventor IL j. A. Adams, a machin
| ist of considerable repute and possessing
| evident genius. He has for many years bo
| lieved that the air could be stored away
and so compressed that II would turn the
ponderous wheels OF machinery with the
same results as steam and at much less
cost. He Immediately began to construct
his model, and Ia few days the work will
be complete.
The engine is under construction on a
vacant lot in the rear Of Madison street
and tho tall tower with tho double pipes
pointing hcavenward has attracted great
deal of attention. To all outward appear.
ances the engine looks like huge tower,
and the framework is heavy and very sim
liar to the scaffolding that Is used in build
ing factory smokestack.
In connection with the air engine Is a
windmill which is also of Adams inven-
tion. In fact, most of the tower and scat.
folding is used to support the windmill
and has no relative bearing to the engine
except to support the two large pipes
through which the air Is obtained for the
use of the engine.
"What you see now" said Mr. Adams,
sis the result Of years Of study and patient
toll and represents several small fortunes.
practically the work has been complet-
ed and my great purpose accomplished. !
have been working under many Difficult
ties 1t has cost much money, but have
managed to get my invention in such tan
gible shape that 1t Is no longer theory,
but q fact
II can't go into details yet, but can
give you a few ideas that will be interest
ing and will tell the story. 1t Is not the
rate of the wind that runs the machine,
but compressed air. ThesAir Is secured
through the large pipes that are on the
tower. There is located In the pipes set
Of wheels and fans that cause aSreat deal
Of suction. The air comes down the pipes
and Is compressed by special machinery
and stored away. II matters not how dead
the calm or stiff the breeze, as the engine
Is not affected either way by these condi-
tions. AS the air Is secured, 1t Is stored
away anu Is uSeu tS OCCttslOu IIby Tcqulro
for running the engine.
II do not contend that I have discovered
perpetual motion, but I do claim that l
have come nearer that than any one else.
It is the air that propels the engine, and
the wheels that compress the air are turned
by the same volume. 1t is all automatic
and everything works without the aid OF
man. No attention is required, and when
once the wheels are released the air does
all the rest. 1t would run for century
unless the machinery wore out. I consider
it one Of the greatest discoveries Of the age.
In day or two will put In an elec-
trio dynamo, and the engine will generate
the electricity. will have lights hung
over the entire plant and the place will be
as bright as day."
The engine will be placed on exhibition
in New York.
Mr.. Adams claims that his air engine
will prove successful and satisfactory and
that any number of horsepower can be OBJ
tained.
"I think that the engine will eventually
supersede steam and electricity for motive
power, as my machine can be operated at
less than half the cost Of the other two.
"Cities can use it for running immense
plants, and the power to bo secured from
compressed air is not probability, but a
certainty to be realized in the near fu-
ture. Atlanta Constitution.