Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-06-05

| over 1t is speedily chilled. If the hand
is plunged into it, the sensation is
that of burning, and unless it is i'm
mediateIy withdrawn the skin is bis
tered and scared. When the hand is
removed, it becomes almost instan-
taneously dry, for the liquid which
had adhered Immediately gathers in
bright beads and drop heavily to the
floor.
For liquid air, as power, Mr.. Trip
Ter claims that it has about one hun
dred the times the expansive force of
steam; that expansion mediately be-
gins under the influence of the pre-
vailing temperature, and that every
additional degree Of heat applied Yields
twenty pounds of pressure. Steam
pressure is not obtained until water
has been heated to temperature of
212 degrees Fahrenheit, and each adj
ditional degree of heat produces only
one pound of pressure. lie asserts,
moreover, that liquid air can be ap-
piled as substitute for steam to any
engine, with substantially no further
change than the displacement of the
boiler by the smaller and lighter re-
ceptacle holding the air. It's general
adoption, therefore, as motive power
would not mean the discarding of ex-
pensive engines now used. Hence,
the first cost of its adoption would be
slight, and with its vastly greater
potentiality, it'must (he claims) super
sede steam, if it can be made cheaply
enough.
For that Mr.. Tripler provides by his
application of liquid air to the manu-
facture of larger quantities OF liquid
air. He asserts that he has accom-
plished such result that he first
nsed steam as the power requisite in
the process of making liquid air; that
he took liquid air thus made, applied
it to an engine rs q substitute for
steam, operated the engine thereby,
aud used the power thus ->otained as
he had used the steam-power.
81 find in this Natter," he said,
"that 1 have been generally misun-
dersta3d. don't claim to create en-
ergy, TO make something out of moth
ing, to upset anyof the laws of nature
L do say, though, that the scientists
have been wrong in some of their
notions, and that they will have to
change them. l assert that by the
use of given quantity of liquid air,
substituted for steam power, can
make, and have made, larger quanti-
ties of liquid air. [ use over and over
again the liquid air employed in the
making. 1t seems simple enough to
me, and the principle is so simple that
it ought to have been grasped by any
scientific mind at once, but, to my
surprise, it has not; what my critics
say appears plausible, but in fact their
contentious are all aside from the
mark, for they have got hold of the
wrong end OF the proposition, and do
not comprehend at all what am
about"
'Then, whatever the modus oper-
andi may be, you do distinctly claim
that by the use OF any given quantity
) OF liquid air you can make a larger
quantity?"
'I positively and absolutely make
, that claim"
"You claim also that by the use of
, three gallons of liquid air you have
| produced temp"
J II have dope that very thing" re-
} piled Mr.. Tripler with emphasis.
1 "D0es its success as greet reyo-
3 lntionizing agency in modern indus
: try and life depend upon the, produc.
+ ton of larger quantities from given
: quantities." the reporter asked.
/ ''If had not achieved the abolition
of steam in the manufacture of liquid
air should have accomplished moth
} ing. That is, although liquid air
might still be of use in some special
= application-as, for instance, in sur
{ gerry and medicine-it could not be-
I come the supreme and universal pow
/, er-producer which I expect it to be. u
1 "You believe that it wiz supersede
steam?"
s "I do-for the traction of railway
=. trains, for the propulsion of ships and
1 for the operation of machinery in gen
t eral. AS Il motiye-power its advnn'
r tag2s over steam are great. 1t will
0 cost far less, it will save bulk ant
= weight of plant and apparatus, 1t will
: be vastly more efficient"
"Do you expect that its use will en-
o able railway trains and steamships tc
= attain greater speed?"
: 81 do look tor such a result There
= is every reason to believe that, giver
0 this greater power than steam, higher
t speed can be produced" ="
$ GLOW would it be used--stored OF
l made in transit?"
e 'lt seems to me to be quite feasible
t to make it in transit not only OF
n steamers and trains, but also in flying
machines.
I. "You believe that it brings nearer
a the day of aerial navigation?"
v Certainly. There is no othel
o agency which, with such small weigh
e and bulk, can produce such motiv,
+ power as liquid air..
!, "To what extent has it been used il