Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-04-06
LIQUEFIED AIR NOW
THE LATEST GREAT MARVEL
u esa Be Made ~ Small Cost and hs.
No Limit for Utiiiy-MEy s.vvAAu
DlsAsn aud Ei-ctricity.

The most extraordinary exhibit cvcI
given IN Washington was witnessed al
tho Arlington hotel few nights ag,
by the scientific circle OF the city
members OF tho Cabinet, Supreme,
Court, diplomatic corps and other pub
lie men. 1t 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 L.
Tripler OF New York to show for the
first time In public the new motive
power which he has discovered and
calls liquid air. 4 description OF this
remarkable fluid and Its uses appears
In NcClure's Magazine for March, and
a more elaborate account Is given in
the April Century.
Briefly and simply stated, Mr.. Trip
Ter takes 500 gallons of ordinary mir,
drawn from any window. and by com,
preston and cold reduces 1t to one
gallon OF n liquid that looks like ely.
cerine and retains Its form at q tem-
perature OF 312 degrees below zero
As 1t warns It expands into vapor and
then Into nlr. just as water Is expand
cd into steam by heat. By controlling
this expansion Mr.. Tr!pler proposes to
furnish new motive power for the
use Of transportation companies on sen
and land. for factories, furnaces and
for every other purpose for which
steam and electlcity are now used. The
expansive force is equal to 1000
pounds a square Inch, and without nn
exhaust pipe the pressure is SO grea,
that there Is now no material Of sufii.
cient strength to restrain II. In other
words, pint or n quart or n gallon OF
tt-fI Ity
which 1t may be confined unless there
is an opportunity for Its gradual es.
cape.
Liquid air Is manufactured by mp.
paratus which Mr.. Tripler has invent
cd. The first gallon or two Is made by
the use Of coal or any other ordinary
fuel, Just us ice Is made In factory,
but thereafter he Is able to reproduce
ten gallons Of the fluid by the cxpendi-
ture of two. A railway locomotive or
n steamship will, therefore, create its
own power from the atmosphere rs 1t
passes along Its way, and n factory
engineer will simply turn the key OF n
ventilation pipe, start his machine and
manufacture fuel us he needs 1t. Mr..
Tripler insists that this energy can be
used with no more difficulty and ut n
cost 10 per cent. less than steam, and,
having mastered 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 five hun.
ded persons performed the experiments
that are described In McClure's Maya.
zine. He dipped the stun out Of his
can with an ordinary tin dipper, just
as n milkman would dip milk. He
dropped potato in 1t, lifted 1t out In
two or three minutes md threw 1t on
the floor. where 1t broke into n thou.
sand little crystals. He took rubber
ball, immersed 1t in the liquid and
then broke it as IL 1t was glass. He
dropped in n piece of beefsteak and in
n moment 1t was broken into little
fragments that looked like petrified
wood. He immersed n tumbler. Of nj.
cohol, and in n few minutes 1t was
frozen into block of ice. He filled n
pastaSoard box with mercury, which
when immersed in the liquid air be-
came as hard as steel. and he used 1t
as hammer to drive nails in the tn
BILE. He immersed copper, tin. iron and
Btripa of steel in the liquid air, and
they crumbled like piecruSt.