The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-04-12
LIQUID EXPERIMENTS.
Cold is Hotter Than Heat. Carbon
Burns at 312 Below.
IoWa State Register.

were entertained by Charles 3. Tripler,
of New York, the inventor of Liquid
air. Mr.. Tripler had brought from
his laboratory in an ordinary vessel
not unlike milk can ten gallons OF
liquid air at temperature Of 3l2 de-
grees below zero. This was brought
into the banquet room at the Airing
ton hotel, where the audience was as
sembled, and many Of the experiments
which have lately startled the scien-
tiic world were repeated.
Mr.. Tripler was introduced by Alex
ander Graham Bell, inventor Of the
telephone. A large number Of dis
tinguished scientists had gathered to
witness his experiments, and in the
audience were the German and Russian
ambassadors, the Chinese minister and
large pumber of the most distin-
guished people in Washington.
MIR. Tripler first exhibited the
liquid air by passing around the audi
ence tin dippers filled with it. These
gave off vapor like steam and rapidly
accumulative frost on the outside.
After the audience had finished the
inspection Mr.. Tripler struck the Dip
pers against the table and they broke
to pieces like glass. He then I'M
merced common rubber ball in the
liquid and afterward threw it on the
floor, where it broke into pieces.
BURNING CARBON.
He partially immersed in. a common
tumbler filled with liquid air stick
Of carbon, like those used on the arc
light, and the part Of the carbon above
the surface burned rapidly with a
white light as intense as that of an
arc lamp. He explained that tenn.
perature of 1000 degrees above zero
was required to burn carbon, yet this
air at 312 degrees below zero burned
it rapidly. He immersed in the same
| glass the end of coiled watch spring,
and it burned rapidly and threw off a
shower of sparks until the entire
spring was consumed.
Mr.. Tripler explained that alcohol
freezes at temperature Of 2O2 below
zero, and he accordingly took a pint
of whiskey and pouring liquid air over
it, soon had it in state SO that he
broke it up into small chunks and
passed it around to his audience.
Mercury freezes at 40 degrees be-
low zero. The inventor froze chunk
of it in the shape of hammer and
drove nail into the table on which
his experiments were conducted. This
! hammer afterwards circulated through
the audience for half an hour without
melting, though it gradually accumu-
lated frost on the outside.
SERVED FROZEN POTATOES.
Mr.. Tripler dipped several Irish po-
tatoes into the can of air, and then
threw them on the floor, and they
broke into pieces like china eggs. The
pieces were picked up for souvenirs,
but were found to be so cold that they
we're uncomfortable to keep.
They we're extremely hard and could
| be carved with a penknife like box.
wood. They circulated pretty rapidly
through the audience, each person
being apparently anxious to pass them
on to his neighbor.
\ piece of raw beef was immersed
in the air and taken out pure and
white and hard as ivory. Thrown on
the floor it broke into pieces. Several
persons having picked these up as
souvenirs, Mr.. Tripler warned them
that in few mindtes after the cold
| had passed away the beautiful white
substance would return to beef again
and would become an uncomfortable
keepsake.
a cake Of ice was placed on the
table, and Mr.. Tripler placed upon il
a teakettle filled with liquid air. He
then put the teakettlc over gas fame
and it quit boiling and thick coating
of ice formed on the outside and was
aftcrward broken off with mallct.
Mr.. Triplcr threw dippcrful Of all
over his clothing and it left them per.
fcctly dry, aud finger dipped in tho
liquid would be withdrawn dry but
uncomfortably cold A quantity ol
the air thrown on the floor made {
heavy sound like melted lead The
liquid scattered in all directions throw
ing Of gray vapor and being rapidly
consumed. It left the floor dry.
SCIENTIFIC MEN ARE DOUBTERS.
Mr.. Tripler said that he had received
letters from scientific men all over the