Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-04-07
The Millennium at Hand.

The nineteenth century has witnessed
many epoch-making inventions, includ-
ing the steam boat, steam railroad, tel
egraph, telephone, monograph, X-ray
and a thousand others hat have truly
revolutioniZed the modern world. But
it has been reserved for the last year of
the outgoing century to be the date of
a discovery and invention that bids fair
to usher in the millennium. 1t is the dis
coVery of a motive power more power
full than steam or electricity and cheap
er than the water power of great Mia
CARA. 1t is the discovery hat proves
that the Kelley motor was more than
a dream and that solves the problem of
perpetual motion beyond the magma
nations of the craziest crank upon the
subject. The new motive power has
been tested by scientists, who have
marveled at it's cheapness and Simplic-
ity. 1t will utilize the air and the heat
of the sun, of which there is enough
anywhere to build IN industrial center,
and make them turn the machinery of
mills, the wheels of locomotives and the
propellers of steamboats,.
The invention is the reducing of air
to a liquid by a cheap and simple pro-
cess invented by Charles e. Tripler, of
New York City. BY subjecting air to
a cold of 312 degrees he reduces it to a
sparkling liquid that boils on ice, freez-
es pure alcohol and burns steel like It's
sue paper. Its expansive force is great
er than that of dynamite and yet it can
easily be handled and controlled by a
nan. A quart of liquid air will drive a
10-horse power engine without noise or
heat, and produce no ashes. The most
wonderful part of the invention is that
with a quart of liquid air in an engine
five quarts of liquid air can be produced
from the surrounding air, The might
est steamer can be started across the
ocean with her boilers empty and mere
ly a quart of liquid air for a starter to
generate sufficient power to send her
across the ocean with inconceivable
speed. Imagine a locomotive without
a boiler, needing no fire box, no fireman,
no water tanks, no coal chutes, gather
ing from the air as it passes the power
which turns it's driving wheels. With
c~ostless power, travel and freight rates
must fall and make living cheaper ev-
erywhere. Liquid air makes aerial nav
igation a possibility and opens a thous-
and other possibilities in mechanics,
sanitation and medicine.
Mr.. Tripler produces liquid air at a
cost of 5 cents a quart and with a quart
to start on and the proper machinery
an unlimited amount of power can be
produced.
The New Mexican has not the space
to describe the process of making liquid
air nor to point out all the vast latent
possibilities of the discovery which will
revolutionize all industries and other
activities of life. Sufficient to say that
the experiments with liquid air We're
made before a body of representative
scientists at the University of New
York and that the invention is minute
ly described by McClure's magazine of
last month. 1t reads like a fairy tale
from Zone Thousand and One Nights"
but it's very simplicity is convincing
and a proof that those who will have
the fortune to live but a few years more
will witness the ushering in of a new
era in the worlds history.