The Lamar register., 1899-04-05
LIQUEFIED AIR NOW.
rAE LArEsr oREAr MARvEL.
1t can be Made n, Small Cost and Has
No Limit for UnIity-siay suppIAnt
Ssesm and Electricity.

The most extraordinary exhibit ever
given in Washington was witnessed at
the Arlington hotel few nights ago
by the scientific circle of the city,
members OF the Cabinet Supreme
Court, diplomatic corps and other pub
lie men. Ii was given under the aus
pices Of the National Geographical So
ciety, presided over by Professor Bell,
the inventor Of the telephone. and fur
nished an opportunity for Charles E.
Trlpler of New York TO show for the
first time in public the new motive
power which he has discovered and
calls liquid air. \ description OF this
remarkable fluid and its uses appears
in McClure's Magazine for March. and
more elaborate account Is given in
the April Century.
Briefly and simply stated. Mr.. Trip
Ter takes 500 gallons of ordinary air,
drawn from any window. and by com
preston and cold reduces IL to one
gallon OF liquid that looks like gly-
cerine and retains its form at tenn
perature Of 312 degrees below zero
As II warns 1t expands into vapor and
then into air, just as water Is expand
ell Into steam by heat BY controlling
this expansion Mr. Tripler proposes to
furnish n new motive power for the
use of transportation companies OH sea
and land. for factories, furnaces and
for every other purpose for which
steam and clccticity are now used. The
expansive force Is equal to 1000
pounds square inch. and without an
exhaust pipe the pressure is SO great
that there Is now no material OF sufti-
cient strength to restrain H. In other
words, a pint or Il quart or gallon OF
this liquid viii burst any vessel In
which 1... ns.I rInl
is an opportunity for Its gradual es-
cape.
Liquid air is manufactured by ap-
paratus which Mr.. rrlpler has invent
ed. The iirsi gallon or two Is made by
the use Of coal or any other ordinary
fuel. just ms ire Is made in factory.
but thereafter he is able to reproduce
ten gallons OF the fluid 10y the expendi-
ture OF two. A railway locomotive or
steamship will, therefore. create its
own power from rlie atmosphere as II
passes along its way. and n factory
engineer win simply turn the key of a
ventilation pipe. start his machine and
manufacture fuel as he needs 1t, Mr..
Tripler insists that this energy can be
used with no more difficulty and at n
cost 40 per cent. less than steam. and.
having mustered the secret OF Its pro
duction. he now proposes to apply II
TO practical Use
Mr.. Tripler brought six gallons of
liquid air with him from New York.
and In the presence of four or fiye hun
ded persons performed the experiments
that are described In McClure's Maga
zine. He dipped the stun ont OF hir
can with an ordinary tin dipper, Just
as n milkman would dip milk. HC
dropped a potato in II. lifted II out in
two or three minutes and threw ii on
the floor, where 1t broke into a thou
sand little crystals. He took a rubber
ball. Immersed II In the liquid ant
then broke it as IL il WIS glass. IL,
dropped In a piece OF beefsteak and IN
moment II was broken into LITTLE
fragments that looked like petrifiet
wood He Immersed a tumbler OF al
cohol. and IN few minutes il was
frozen into n block of ice He filed 1
pasteboard box with mercury. whicl
when immersed in the liquid air be
came as hard as steel and he used i
as hammer TO drive nails In the IA
BILE He Immersed copper. tin. Iron ant
strips OF steel in the liquid air. ant
they crumbled like piecrust. He dem
onstrated the expansive power OF the
liquid in similar manner, and alto
gether performed experiments tina
We're not only novel but amazing.