Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1899-04-07
THE NEW MOTIVE
POWER.
A RAILROAD LOCOMOTIVE
CREATES ITS POWER
FROM AIR AS
IT PASSES.
The Discoverer Calls This Re-
markable Discovery Liquid
Air. An Exhibition by
the Inventor in Wash~
ington City.
Chicago ReCord.)

was witnessed at the Arlingto
Hotel last night by the scient
hc circle of this city, member
Of the Cabinet, Supreme Cour
diplomatic corps and other pub
lie men. 1t was given under tn
auspices Of the National Geo
graphical society, presidet owe
BY Prof. Bell, the inventor c
The telephone and furnished al
opportunity for Chas. E. Trip
l@r, of New York, to show 70
the first time IN public the neg
motive power which he has dis
covered and calls liquid air. a
description of this remarkable
fluid and its uses appears in Nc
Clues Magazine for March anc
a more elaborate account vii
be given IN the April Century.
Briefly ami simply stated, Mr.
Tripler takes 500 gallons o.
ordinary air drawn from any
window and by compression and
cold reduces it to one gallon OF
a liquid that looks like glvcerine
and retains its form at a temper
ature Of 3I2 degrees below zero
AS it warns it expands 1n'o va
pOr aud then into air, Just as
water is expanded into steam by
heat. BY controlling the eXpan
sion, Mr.. Tripler proposes to
furnish a new motive power for
the use OF transportation COM
paEies Oh sea and on land, for
factories, furnaces, and for every
other purpose for which steam
and electricity are now used.
The expansive force is equal to
1000 pounds a square inch, and
without an exhaust pipe the
pressure is SO great that there
is no material OF sufficient
strength to restrain it. In other
words, a pint, or quart, or
gallon of this liquid will burst
any vessel IN which it may be
unless there is an op>
portunlty for its gradual escape. |
Liquid air is manufactured |
~ apparatus which Mr.. Tripler
las invented. The first gallon or
wo is made by the use of coal
u any other ordinary fuel, just
is ice is made i'll a factory, but
hereafter he is able to reproduce
Ell gallons Of the fluid by the
of two. A railway
locomotive or a steamship will
therefore, create its own power
rom the air as it passes along
IS way. and a factory engineer
viii simply turn the key Of a
entllatlon pipe, sta his maci1~
lie and manufacture fuel as he
eeds it. Mr.. Tripler insists
lat this energy can be used
18th no more difficulty and at
oast 70 cents less than steam
nd, having mastered the secret
It's production, be now pro- I
oses to apply it to practical !
SEES.
MI. Iripler brought SIX gal /
MS of liquid air with him from .
ew York, and i'll the presence Il
five or six hundred persons :
erforrned the experiments that b
e describ d in McClure's Mag l
inc. He dipped the stuff out
S can with an ordinary tin 2
PIPER, just as a milkman would -
P milk. He dropped a potato >
to It, lifted it out in two or :
rec minutes and threw it on
e floor, where it broke into a
ousand little crystals. He took =
rubber ball, immersed it in the =.
IuId and then broke it as If it 6
is glass. He dropped a piece Ii
beefSteak, and in a moment it Il
IS broken into little fragments
at looked like petrifed wood. n
. immersed a tumbler of -
hol, aid in a few minutes it p
S frozen into a block or ice,
filled a pasteboard box with
rcury, which, when immersed
the liquid, air became as hard
steel, and he used it as a hams
r to drive nails into the table
inserted copper, tin, iron and
ps of steel in the liquid air, -
they crumbled like pie i
st. He demonstrated the ex>
Islve power of the liquid in a
liar manner, and altogether
formed experiments that d.
e not only novel but amaz-