Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1899-03-25
LATEST WONDER.
Cold That is Stronger Than Steam
or Heat.

or Heat.
Washington, March 23.-The guests
of the National Geographic Society af-
ter its annual reception tonight were
by Chas. Il. Tripler of New
York, the inventor of liquid air. Mr..
Tripler had brought from hislaboratory
in an ordinary vessel not unlike milk
can ten gallons of liquid air at tenn
perature of 312 degrees below zero.
A large number of distinguished cit
liens and scientists had gathered to
witness the experiments, and in the
audience were the German and Rus
sian ambassadors, the Chinese minis
ter and large number of the most dis
tinguished people in Washington.
Mr.. Tripler first exhibited the liquid
air by passing around the audience tin
dippers filled with it. These gave off
vapor like steam and rapidly ac-
cumulated frost on the outside. After
the audience nad finished the inspec-
tion Mr.. Tripler struck the dippers
against the table and they broke to
pieces like glass. He then immersed a
common rubber ball in the liquid and
afterward threw it on the floor, where
it broke into pieces.
He partially immersed in a common
tumbler filled with liquid air a stick
of carbon, likt 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 a tempera-
ture of 1000 degrees above zero was re-
quired to burn carbon, yet this air at
312 degrees below zero burned it rap
idly. He immersed in the same glass
the end of a coiled watch spring ,and it
burned rapidly and threw off shower
of sparks until the entire spring was
consumed.
Mercury freezes at 40 degrees below
zero. The inventor froze a chunk of
it in the shape of a hammer and drove
a nail into the table on which his ex-
perfments were conducted. This ham
mer afterwards circulated through the
audience for half an hour without
melting, though it gradually accumul-
ated frost on the outside.
Potatoes were frozen and they were
extremely hard and could be carved
with a penknife like lockwood. They
circulated pretty rapidly through the
audience, each person being apparent
anxious to pass them on to his neigh
Dor.
A piece of raw beef was immersed in
the air and takn out pure and white
and as hard as ivory Thrown on the
floor it broke into pieces.
A cake of ice was placed on che tab.
lie, and Mr.. Tripler placed upon it 9
kettle filled with liquid air. He ther
placed the tea kettle over a gas flame
and it quit boiling and thick coating
of ice formed on the outside and wa.
afterward broken off with a mallet
Mr. Trlpler threw a dipperful of ali
over his clothing, and it left them per
fectly dry, and finger dipped into tn,
air would be withdrawn dry, but un
comfortably cold. A quantity of the
air thrown on the hoor made a heavy
sound like lead. The liquid scattered
in all directions, throwing off gray
vapor and being rapidly consumed.
1t left the floor dry.
Mr. Tripler said that he had receiv
ed letters from scientific men all owe
the United States questioning hi
Clures Magazine to the effect that h,
could produce liquid air with liquid al
that is with a start of two gallons o
the substance, he could go on produc
ing any quantity of the air for an.
length of time. The inventor said tha
he had actually made ten gallons o
liquid by the use of about three gal
Ions in his engine, a surplusage tina
would go on indefinitely.
The inventors theory is that liqui,
lar at 312 degrees below zero, beini
warmed by contact with the atmos
phere, throws of vapor or steam
which, if confined, could be made t,
operate any engine now operated b,
steam. The inventor said that he pro
posed not only to ptilize liquid air il
place of the water now used in boilers
but that he proposed to heat the al
with the natural atmosphere, thus op
Grating engines without water or fue
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