The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-03-31
Tripler Claims to Make it
by Bucket Full.
Can Be Used as Fuel, and IS
Much Cheaper Than Coal.
A Big Stir In Hotel Where Ex-
perimen.s Were in Progress.

New York, March 3l-Charles II.
Tripler, the chemist. when seen at his
residence, 40 West Seventy street.
by a reporter said that the explosion III
the Hotel Endicott recently that occurreu
when he was experimenting with MS ne"
discovery for freezing food was not trace
able TO any explosive quality III nH
liquids, and that us the frozen acoiioi,
which exploded is such IA rare thlhB
there would bc very few chemists In inns
city ar i'm this country for that matter,
who could give any precedent ior Ihe ao-
cidcnt.
1.-The liquid which usei for freezing
and with which / froZe alcohol soiilo-
thing practically unknown In TINS couh-
try, as it takes $50 degrees fahrehhelt 10
solidify it, Is made by me with an ln.en, le,
tion Of my own, and is really hqulileu
air 1t contains nitrogen, and oxygen,
and when some of il was poured on inc
alcohol il congcaled and in the bolilng
process which ensued the nitrogen eVap..
Grated. So that when Mr. Dean, one OF
the men who were watching. the cxper-
inents applied match 10 the glass TO
see if the alcohol still retained its in
fammable properties, there was only tno
alcohol and the liquid oxygen, which Is
explosive.
II am the only one in this country who
has ever liquiiicd air, although Professor
Dewar of the Royal institute ana haoul
Pictet of Geneva have done II abroad. bQe
as Dowar makes il, il Is most expensive
and would have no practical value. AS
have been making il, il Is as cheap as
water and generates "A power that VIII, L
think, rovolutionize the world.
"It takes 80 degrees Fahrenheit 10
liquify air. At that temperature III Is
static fluid, and has the appearance OF
A 4 sbn af
colt on Saturday night il will freeze any
thing il comes i'm contact with. But the
moment YOU bring a pail OF this liquid
into room with the ordinary house tenn
perature, il will begin TO boil. AS IL Is
now, we spend millions of dollars in burn
ing coal TO get water up To 2ls degrees
Fahrenheit, and then millions more 60 get
the extra $50 degrees of heat necessary for
steam. whereas mere is liquid that boils
the moment IL is exposed To the air.
II have been To all of the great scien-
fists in the country, and they all agreed
| that there is nothing impossible IN IT,
The only point at which they differed from
me was in the making of the liquid. At
| the time / went TO them, several ye ars
| ago. such objections counted for some
| thing. ms l was then but beginning, but
| as / am now making liquid air by the
| bucketful everyday objections ms To the
| irnpossibiIity of the thing do not count for
much. In month or so l shall DC reany
| to start in on practical work, and Mr..
| Crimmins Of the Third avenue Cable COM
| pany has given me the use of his power
| house in One Hundred and Twenty.
| ninth street in which TO make electricity. "
| Professor II. Ogden DOremus of the Col
| lege of the City of New York would not
| discuss MIR. Tripler's discovery. He said
| experiments were frequently made in the
| college i'm liquidizing various gasses, but
| that the experiment with air had not been
attempted, as it required roo great a degreG
| of cold The solidifying of alcohol was
| also very rare. Liquid gasses, he said
| yould boil at several hundred degrees be-
| low zero, so that if they could be made
| cheaply enough they undoubtedly could b'
| put To great advantage.