Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1899-01-24
NEW STEAM. TURBINE
ELISHA sEvMouR's INVENTION 70
SPEED TRAINS AND STEAMERS.

ELISHA sEvMouR's INVENTION 70
SPEED TRAINS AND STEAMERS,
CAicsago Inventor Thinks He Has
Solved the Problem Of Economical-
IL Using steam-seven Advantages
Of HIS Device Set Forth.
Occupying q dingy corner Of IN IN.
pretentious little foundry in Chicago 10
small perfected turbine rotary engine.
Il 10 . product Of the inventive genius
Of Elisha Seymour, white haired Chi
cagoan, rs years old. II all that 10
claimed for the invention 10 true. It will
mark . revolution In mechanics unri.
vailed since the advent Of the steam On:
CINE.
I'm tho face Of thousands Of futile At
tempts at . successful rotary engine BY
engineers in every part Of the world"
said Nh. Seymour the other day, with
the patent office at Washington alone
classifying upward Of 500 models aim
ing at the same achievement, undis-
couraged by the assertions Of scientific
men, our turbine wheel engine, tested
by every trial Of practical meohanioa
has been successfully evolved.
1--WE hold out the promise Of 16 hour
trip from Chicago to New York behind
locomotive equipped with rotary On.
CINE power and an ocean voyage aboard
= greyhound whose propellers will an.
initiate distance at anywhere from 25
to 40 knots an hour. Arrangements for
demonstration on rail and water are
now being perfected" ...,
Mr.. Seymour declares that the great
aims Of q rotary engine in all partiou-
lars are realized in his invention be.
yond all doubt. Seven distinctive rfea-
lures Of advantage over the common
style Of reoiprocatink engine are named,
constituting the points Of improvement
at which all modern engine constructors
have aimed. They arc:
First. control Of the steam
power by cut offs and valves.
Observation-Disclosures Of space oocu-
pied, both for engine and boiler. |,
Third.-Minimum of cost of manu-
facture.
FouRth.-Minimum Of steam neoes.
cary to develop given amount Of power
Fifth.-Minimum Of friction and
wear and avoiding dead working parts.
Sixth. - 1nterohangeability Of its
eight simple working parts.
neutrality-suspicious. Of speed, at
maximum or minimum, without loss Of
power or sacrifice of dura bility.
Mr.. Seymour has two working models
IN the little West Side foundry. The
smaller wheel bears a cylinder 8 by 8
inoheA and occupies with all equip
ment less than q square foot Of floor
space In daily operation. for the bone.
flt Of interested visitors, Is dynamo,
built for operation by Is horsepower
engine, which 10 sent buzzing with
noiseless rapidity by the little bundle
Of power few feet away, 90 insigni6-
cant that ono might almost stumble
against it unnotioed. A larger wheel,
with cylinder 10 by ~ inches, but
identical with tho smaller model, ooou.
pies three square feet of space. This
model has demonstrated . capacity Of
100 horsepower.
Speaking of the incentives which
have evolved bis engine, Mr.. Seymour
said: '1n 1891, while in the Adiron.
daoks for my health, took the notion
to build q sample wheel after my own
ideas, based on the turbine idea. I have
eight different wheels. but
not until a few weeks ago did COM
plete the perfect one. its adaptability
to battleships at once suggests itself,
builders of war vessels to
devote to armor and armament the ex-
ira weight that has not been possible
before because Of the heavy machinery.
II may contrast tho general idea Of
the engine to the Parsons turbine ma
chine, which is the propelling power
for the famous Turbinia. The Parsons
engine has not been perfected go az to
permit the reversing Of the Turbinia
q separate set Of engines for
the express purpose, while the Seymour
wheel aocomplishes forward aud revers-
ing motion with equal ease."
Mr.. Seymour is native Of Skaneat-
eles, Onondaga county, N. Y. He has
made his home in Chicago for many
years.-Ohioago Record.
FLIES CAPTURE A SHIP.
They Hold swa, Five Days, and tho
Crew Are F. rarfully Bitten.
The British steamship Kensington,
sugar laden, from Sourabaya, q port in
Java, while In the Indian ocean ran in.
to q vast field of seuweed. These weeds
were the home Of large and voraoious
species Of the dragon fly. Attracted by
the fumes Of the sugar the flies swarm
al ,,~o,, thu Ioolxo l., ,,,;11:ou.