Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-05-18
100 MILES AN HOUR.
NEW AND REMARKABLE METHODS OF
PROPULSION.
A Philadelphia Introduces Motors til It
Solve the Problem of Travel at High
Speeds with Comfort ard Safety
A Gaso-Electric System.

American industry and brains have
again proven their superiority over the IN
veHtive genius of all other nations in the
person of Gordon j. Scott, a Philadelphia,
who has recently perfected a new electric
apparatus which not only laughs at the
limitations hitherto placed on steam and
electricity, but in addition to increasing
the speed of an average train of cars to
over one hundred miles an hour, causes
the car TO ride much more easily than has
hitherto been found possible, and saves
for the company running the cars over
thirty per cent of the power now used.
one OF these machines is a new motor.
which involves, at least, d dozen patented
Inventions. and includes discoveries OF SO
startling nature that they have not been
equallcd in interna tional Importance or in
tcrest since the invention of the telephone.
The most advantageous feature of the mo-
tor is the fact that it propels the gearing
indirectly by means of an electro magne-
tic driver and controller, a flexible con-
nection existing between the axle and the
gearing, which allows the spring support-
ed wheels of the car to move in any direc-
tion, with relation to the gearing thus
preventing all jarriilg and jolting while
tho car Is in motion.
This controller is also adapted to govern
another unique creation in the field OF
electrical engineering, namely, a single
phase, alternating current motor, which is
load starting and runs at variable speed.
1t is the only motor of its kind in exis-
tence, and in perfecting it Mr.. Scott mas
developed an entirely new principle 1t IS
an iNduction motor, pure and simple. de-
pending upon what Is known as the induc-
ton director principle, and causing motion
to be esta blished and power developed by
means Of the opposition of an induced cur
rert of electricity for the magnetic field
which induces it.
Having high voltage and small cur
re0t. this motor allows the use of a wire
so thin that its cost is but one-tenth of the
cost of the wire now used. Locomotives
equipped in this way develop. it is claim
ed. from 10 to 1900 horse power, and run
at any rate of speed up to and including
100 miles per hour, and may travel on a
belt hno coo miles in circumference.
GASO-ELECTRIC SYSTEM.
Possibly the most remarka BILE discovery
of all Is one that has resulted in what Mi.
Scott terms the gaso-electric system Of
propulsion The term gaso-electrc is de-
rived from the fact that in this system a
gasoline engine and the electromagnetic
driver and controller are jointly employ
ed. The length of the road which can be
operated and absolutely without power
stations of any kind is wnlimted. Its in
/ ventor claims that in addition to being
much cheaper the new system is superior
| to the storage battery in that it is but
onc-fourth as heavy. and will climb grad s
that would effectually block a storage bat
/ terry system, either on railway or street
car, or an automobile.
/ One of the principal advantages of this
Invention lies in the electro magnetic
driver and controller which is now in ac-
tive operation in this city. 1t is attached
to trolley car hunning on "a line in one
Of the suburbs. Tho motor itself is much
smaller and lighter than the ones now
generally in use, and yet develops, at a
speed of but four or five hundred revolu-
tons per minute. from l20 to $50 horse
power.
The motor which is known az the direct
current railway motor, is fastened to the
truck and gathered to each axle in such a
manNer that the car may be started cr
stopped within its own length while traV-
| cling at the rate of twenty miles an hour
| with such ease and smoothness that its
occupants are not in any way inconven-
ienced. There is no friction of any kind.
| Its most peculiar feature Is the fact that
in exact opposition to the motor now il
, use the new one runs continuously from
one end of the trip to the other, The Cal
itself, however. is stopped or started by
means of the electro magnetic driver anC
controller.
CONTROLLER DOES IT ALI.
This is done by means of the driver It,
self being rigidly attached to the armaturt
shaft the controlling section of the driver
having the gear upon it not being fastea
ed mechanically to the driver in any way
and the gear being driven by electro ma G.
netic action between the driver and the