The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-14
TO USE THE SUMS POWER.
French Scientists Invention to Move the
Worlds Machinery.

Worlds Machinery.
Sunshine is to be brought TO our aid
in doing work, says the New York
Herald. and the free and unlimited
force of old Sol Is to be made to serve
a dozen different purposes. BY means
of solar action alone it will be posi-
BILE to sink artesian wells in the most
arid desert, to get water from any
depth, bring it to the surface and make
use of it as we will. Railways can
traverse the Sahara desert, and the
whrr of busy manufactures wake up
its silent echoes, while steamers pillow
the waves without need to trouble
about finding fuel
The apparatus that is to do all this
is the invention of M. Mouchot, pro-
fessor of physics at the Tours Lyce-
um France and is called by him the
solar condenser. In construction it is
exceedingly simple, and it is asserted
that it is so easy to manipulate that a
child of I could learn to manage it in
five minutes.
1t consists of large conical shaped
reflector, made of highly FURNISHED
copper, which has in it's center a boiler
made of tempered glass. There is also
steam engine whose slightest move
ment sets in motion various conduct
ing wires which lead to the reservoir
where the heat is stored. The latter
consists simply of a vast: quantity of
sand. surrounded by a wooden covering,
which is able to hold the superluous
heat until it is required. Other wires
lead to dynamos set at work by the
solar heat, concentrated and brought to
focus by the solar condenser.
This conical shaped funnel once set
facing the sun the rest goes by itself.
A lever enables the reflector to be
moved backward and forward horizon
tally, while toothed rack, by setting
in motion two cogs, elevates or de-
presses it vertically. The heat con-
verges upon the reflector from all di-
rections, and the dynamos are soon
merrily set going, the superfluous heat
being conducted to the non-conduetor.
In experiments conducted in Tours
Professor Mouchot succeeded in grill
ing outlets and cooking soup by means
of his solar condenser. and. although
the apparatus is not made for France,
as Professor Mouchot explains in LIE
Monde Scientific, it is admirably suited
to the desert lands of Africa. where the
sun shines uninterruptedly through dry
air. The invention of this machine. it
is declared, will completely revolutions
ize the conditions of African deserts
and will render habitable many other
desert spots on the earth.
The amount of power that is theor-
etically available in this way is al
most beyond utation-enough
could be got from the deserts alone to
operate the machinery of many worlds
like this. AS a matter of theoretical
and demonstrated fact, it is possible to
get enough power from the rays of sun
shine on territory smaller than Long
Island to operate all the machinery of
the world
If, as Ericsson demonstrated, heat
enough to make one horse power may
be developed from each square yard
when the suns rays fall perpendicu-
ularly through a dry atmosphere, from
one square mile enough may be COL
lected to make as many horse powers as
there are yards in square mile. or
3,OS9,6OO. At the outside the city of
London does not use more than 100000
horse power, and this would operate all
Its electric and horse cars, motor car
riages, and wagons and carts: run all
its steam engines, tugs and ferry boats
on the river, and all other machinery
of every kind.