New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-11-25
Richest Man
in Brown CO.
That is What Grant Brambell Becomes
through bis Invention
Engineer, Electrician and Globe Trotter,
he is the Coolest Man in Sleepy
Eye.

The Minneapolis Journal Of Friday
evening contained the following special
correspondence regarding Grant Bram-
bel and his wonderful invention:
The days of giants, physical giants, at
least, have passed, and no man can now
be expected to carry 40-horse power
engine around under his arm or lift it
from the floor with one hand. But that's
not at all an impossible feat If the
statements of Inventor Brambel are
true, and the writer did it yesterday
here in Sleepy Eye, and did it easily, for
the engine, or motor, Or steam turbine,
what you will ,weie ehed only about twen-
ty-tive pounds.
That was it's material, avoirdupois,
weight, but its weight in potency in
moving the world, III changing the me-
chanical currents of the future, is, if the
apparently wcll-founded claims of It's
inventor and of other expert eng gineefs
can be relied on, something utterly I'M
measurable and beyond belief. Think
Of one horse power steam motor that
can be carried in the watch pocket, a
forty horse power engine that rests light
ly on baby's chair, a 25-horse power
machine that occupies but $50 square in
ches Of Moor space, or a machine, that
will exert the power of the engines Of
the Campania or the greatest of our bat
tleships, and which are from fifty to six
ty feet long and nearly as broad, that
weighs but few tons Think of a ma
chine that can be coupled to steam gen.
orators and give twice the power those
boilers are built to furnish, cutting
squarely IN two space occupied by boil
ers for a given power, and weight and
fuel consumed besides! Think of an en-
gine whose cost is first merely nominal
as compared with the power plants of
to-day, whose speed is practically limit
less. whose working parts are so simple
that repairs must be the least possible!
Think of all these things and you have
what many engineers claim for the new
Brambel engine, invented and patented
I'LL over the world by man who is now
railway agent and operator at the little
town of Sleepy Eye.
Grant Brambel the man who has done
this, is young Englisllman, blue e-eyed,
m-jawed and squarely built, "a thorough
mechanic. deep and close observer, a
reader and student. He is 40 years old
next month. Like many another E'!g-
lishman he has been globe trottcr. lie
has shot the musk OK and the caribou
on the Barren Grounds and along the
Mackenzie, the cheeta in India, the pan
ther in South Africa; he has hunted with
the Bushmen in Australia and caught
trout in the Nepigon; he has made the
dangerous and pathless journey from the
Yukon over the Rockies with Esquimo
guides and there are few portions of
the globe he has not visited. He carries
first-class papers as Il marine engineer,
and is an expert electrician. About a
dozen years ago he was sent to Bank0k,
Siam, to Install the first electric light
plant in that far-off empire, and later
was in charge of IL similar installation in
the palace Of Dom Pedro of Brazil. Mr..
Brambel has been Il particularly close
student of dvnamics and engineering and
since he has been at Sleepy Eye, SO say
the railroad engineers, he has spent his
spare time around their machines. He
has been in this country a number of
wears ana since 1892 has been located at
Sleepy Eye in the employ of the North.
western road and quietly perfecting his
machines. He is married and his house
hold consists of his wife and two pug
dogs, with English pedigress as long as
ones arm. In his little home and else
where are rare trophies and cuiioslties,
gathered from ali parts Of the globe.
II first got the ideaof rotary en-
e1ne," said Mr. Brambel yesterday,"from
tile turbine wheel / couldn't see Why
stealIl couldn't do what water did,espec-
tally when steam had qualities that wa
ter lacked and that were essential. You
\ know that when a little turbine is hit by
i columnof water no bigger than your
pencil something has TO go. oti take a
smaller wheel, mechanically correct, and
turn against It an inch steam jet#at 100
pounds u over, and allow for the steam
expulsion, and why won you get pow
er5 knew that it was necessary to get