The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-09
AMAZED By IR|PlER.
SCIENTISTS WITNESS EXHIBITS OF
THE LIQUID AIR.
Discovery Of the New phenosse aon
sBd Its Remarkable Sais~ Es-
pIaised Ia n Notable Gath~rtax In
Waahfagson-NHf sspptaas steam

The most extraordinary exhibit ever
given III Washington wis Witnessed AZ the
Arlington fofst recently ~ tsss ssieutlBe
circle ~ that city members 0t TIE saas-
net. supreme court, diplomatic corps and
other public use-a. IL Uas given GtaFssT fas
auspices Of the National tseosFapEsicai So
csety presided over by Prof. Bell. the Ia
yenfor If ss4e.> Telephone. ard furnished afi
opportunity for Charles r. Tripier of New
York 10 show for tbs FIRST time la pIsias
tzae new motive ssower which be has dis
covered and ealis liquid air. description
Of tbs remarkable fluid ard its asses afs-
pears In Mcclure Magazine for March
and a more elaborate account Il given In
the April Century.
Briefly and aiTupsy stated. ar Isiaief
takes so gallons az ordinary afr drawn
from any window and ~ compression ana
cold reduces 4 tD ONO gais0n 81 llf.sia
that looks ise Siycerin aad retains rs
form at a sofapsra sure OF ~ degrees De-
lew zero. As &c warns & expands mtg
yap0r and then into ase, tSst rs water ~
EXPANDED Into steam ~ heat BS cen
trolling this expansion Nj. TTip!er pto-
poses Ia furnish 8e*s Esetive p1wcr ser
the use OF transportation cUsEpa Mes on
SEA ard on land. fer factories. furnaces
and for every other Hai5loss for which
steam aud electricity ara raw used TIE
expansion force Ii equal &c a.geH pounds =
square inch and without an exhaust pipe
the pressure IS 80 great that there rs
now no material 81 sufficient strength 10
restrain H. IN esaer @0fGs, . pint or a
quart nr a gallon ~ Tits lauij wiIl burst
any vessel III which II may bs confined TN
less there ~ an opportunity fer its grad
uai escape.
Liquid air is manufactured by an APP
aaratus which SIR. Trtper has invented
The first gallon ar two is made by che use
of coat or my ether ordinary fuel. just
Ice L. made IN, u factory aus thereafter he
Is able tu reproduce tea cations OF the
fislIa BY the expenditure of two. a rail-
WAY locomotive a steamship viii there
fore create Us own power from the atmos-
phsr- 40 X passes along It's way. and ii
factory engineer will simply turn the key
o. a ventilation pipe. start his machine
and manufacture fuel as he needs H. Mr.
Tripler insists that this energy can be
used With no more difficulty and at cost
10 per cent less thar steam and. having
mastered the secret of It's production he
row proposes ~ apply Il To practical use.
Mr. TrtfsieF hgcuEht STR gallons Of liquid
air with him from New York aad In the
prnseRcs OF faar ar rye hundred persons
performed the experiments that are de-
scrissed in Mcg]nre's magazine. He dipped
the stuff ont of his can with an ordinary
I'm dtprer iuas as 3 n,ilkman would dip
mix II. dropped a potato In H. lifted IL
cut IN tao or thfee minutes aua threw il
on The door where 4 broke into a thou
sand little crystals he tool: 81 rubber
ball. immsFsgd 1t Ia the tiiald and then
BROKE II as II Il VAS glass. tie dropped
In . piece of h@cfsteak and ia a moment 1t
Mas broken Into little fragments that
hooked ilke p.tyitsd wood He immersed
a tu.rbier IF alcohol ard 81 a few minutes
II was frozsn into a block ~ ice He
fliissi "a r@sfebeard box with mercury.
which when Immersed IN the liquid air
Became as hard steel and he used IL
ss hammer - drive nails in the table.
He Immersed G"ffpcr, tin. iron sad strips
o. sfeei iis be s'gtIe air and thet crurn-
hled lika ni.rr}ist. Ais Demonstrated the
expansive pt'Ae, of tAv NGu.d g.; sir.fIar
manner, and altogether performed expert
ffe9ts that we've not cnty novel hes asslax-
ing.