La Junta tribune., 1899-04-08
LIQUEFIED AIR NOW
THE LATEST GREAT MARVEL
u can be NAds At . Small Ccst sad Hs.
No Limit for UuiifJ-Af15 sspp.Aa
Steam and Else,Fictty.

The most extraordinary exhibit cycI
given In Washington WIS witnessed nj
the Arlington hotel few nights age
by the scientific circle OF the city
members OF the Cabinet. Suprem,
Court. diplomatic corps and other pub
lie men. II was given under the aus
plces OF the National Geographical So
ciety. presided over by Professor Bell
the inventor OF the telephone, and fur.
nlshed an opportunity for Charles l..
Trirler Of New York to show for the
first tine In public the new motive
power which he has discovered and
calls liquid air A description Of ihl.
remarkable fuid and It's uses appears
IN Sctlure's Magazine for March. and
n more elaborate account is given in
the Aprll Century.
Briefly and simply stated. Mr.. Trip
Ter fakes 500 gallons OF ordinary air
drawn from any window. and by COM
preston ard cold reduces II to one
gallOa or liquid thar looks like giy
ccrine and retains It's form at Il tenn.
pernture OF 312 degrees below zero
As II warns IL expands into yapor and
then into MIR. just as wnter is expand
eli Into steam by heat. by controlling
this expansion Mr. Tripler proposes 10
furnish a new motive power for III,
use of transportation companies on sea
and Land. for factories, furnaces nnd
for every other purpose for which
Steam and elccticlty are now used. The
expansive force is equal to 200.
pounds square inch, md without an
exhaust pip. the pressure IN 80 great
thu. there Il now no material OF SUN.
cient strength TO restrain IL. In other
words. pint or n quar-, or gallon of
this liquid VIII burst any vessel In
which 1t may lie confined unless there
IL an opportunity for It's gradual es.
cape.
Liquid air Is manufactured by ap.
paratps which Mr., Trlpler has invent.
cd. The first gallon or two is made by
the use OF coal or any other ordinary
fuel. just ms Ice Is made In factory,
bat thereafter he is able 10 reproduce
ten gallons OF the fiuld by the expendi.
turc OF two. A railway locomotive or
steamship VIII, therefore. create Its
own power from the atmosphere as 1t
passes along Its wny. and factory
engineer VIII simply turn the key OF
ventilation pipe, start his machine and
manufacture fuel rs he needs 1t. Mr..
Tripler insists that this energy can bs
used with no more difficulty and at n
cost 10 per cent. less thnu steam. and.
having mastered the secret of its pro
'hN'i|iis t'" IipH'n'S "
TO practical use.
Mr.. Trlplcr brought six gallons OF
liquid air with him from New York.
and In the presence of four or five hun.
ded persons performed the experiments
that are described in McCiurcs Maga-
zine. He dipped the ssuff out OF his
can with an ordinary tin dippcr, just
rs milkman would dip milk. He
dropped potato In 1t. lifted II out In
two or three minutes and threw II on
the floor. where II broke into n thou
sand little crystals. He took rubber
ball. immersed 1t In the liquid and
then broke II as II II WIS glass. He
dropped In II piece OF beefstenk and In
moment II was broken into little
fragments that looked like petrified
wood. He immersed a tumbler of al
cohol. and In n few minutes II was
frozen into n block OF ice. He filled n
pasisooard box with mercury. which
when Immersed In the liquid air be-
came as hard ms steel, and he used II
ns hammer 10 drive nails In the Ia.
bic. He immersed copper. tin. Iron and
stripa OF steel In the liquid air, and
they cruinblcd like piecrust.