Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-07-20


an Instructive article On Liquid Air to
Harper's Weekly of July Is, in which, after
describing the process Of manufacture, be
says
One gallon OF it, weighing u pounds, has
i the cooiing power of IS pounds of ice.
Besides this advantage in bulk, it has the
/ advantages over ice Of being absolutely
clean and absolutely dry.
The practical value of liquid air as a
high explosive, in connection with carbons,
has been clearly established in Germany.
When made by the Linde process which
has but one-fourth the productive efficiency
of the OstergreD process it has been found
to be cheaper and better than dynamite or
nitro glyceriae At the present time two
Linde plants are being built at the great
Simpson tunnel in Switzerland, one at the
north end and one at the south, to supply
liquid air to do the work of blasting
II is estimated that the United States, in
building the Nicaragua Canal, would save
over $40, 100000 in doing the blasting which
the Walker commission reported would be
necessary, if liquid air, at the low cost at
which it can be made by the OStergren
process, should be used as an explosive.
! Nordenfeldt, the great Swedish gun
maker, who has lately been on trip to
America, told 0stergren, after having gone
over the designs of his process, that be was
convinced that liquid air wOnld have great
use in the heavy ordnance of the future if
it could be made in the quantity and at the
cost which Ostengren's designs and Bur
gers calculations called for. Since Nor
deDfeldt made this statement these ca Gu
lstioDs have been shown to be correct. But
this warlike use of the new force had not
escaped the inventor. He detected it in
the study Of the subject, and designed a
gun and shell, in which alcohol or charcoal
and liquid oxygen are to be used for the
charges. Alcohol will be used in the gun,
and thus the explosion at firing will be
smokeless; but not so with the shell as it.
flies toward the enemy. In it charcoal is
used as the carbon, so when it explodes
smoke will be spread as well as destruction
The battle ships, a few years hence,
therefore, may have a liquid air plant in
place of the menaciDg powder magazine,
and make the explosive part OF their am
munition from the atmosphere. This may
seem incredible. but surely it does not
seem more incredible than did the state
ment about transmitting messages across
house in Gramercy Square, where Field
was working out the plan for the Atlantic
cable.
AS moter power, quite as much as a
reirigerant and as an explosive, liquid air
seems destined to have large nse. One
gallon Of it, taking into account both its
expansive power and it's latent cold, equals
two horse power for one hour. The appl
aof of 10 sv,l
mechanics which is even now being solved
Late German scientific reviews devote
much attention to the part liquid air is to
play in illumination. They tell of com
plete success in producing calcium carbide |
with liq aid air without electricity They
also speak of the great use liquid air will
surely serve, paradoxical as it may seem, In
producing high temperatures, as, with it, il |
8 easy to get gas containing 80 per cent
oxygen. while the atmospheric air contains |
only Il per cent. In the Bessemer-steel
process, and in all places where great heat
is required, the large proportion of oxygen |
in liquid air will render efficient service.
This new force, therefore, has in its train
all the elementary forces-hest, cold, light, |
and power. With cheap and abundant |
production, and with safe control, all of |
which are now secured, liquid air, it would
surely seem. cannot fail to do Titan's part
in the work of the world.
Base Ball Notes.
National Park defeated Lucas A. A. last
Saturday-score 20 to s They play Penn
City next Saturday at D M. Come ont
and see these interesting ball games Their
game with the strong Central Club on the
81 of hur -. fa ofl
National Park
The Country Club defeated the All
Philadelphia team last Saturday by a.
score of Is to IL. The game put up by
both teams was not what might be expected,
and besides was rather rough The visi-
tors started that style of game, and were
probably sorry for it before the game was
over, although it is no credit to the Wood
bury boys who retaliated. The game
seemed to lack the ginger that was dis
played last week. Score by innings -
R H FL
All -Phila 2 OIL 1911 Iii 10
Woodbury. l 0 / ks IA
Batteries, Dey and Robinson for Wood
bury; Miller and Hays for All Philadel-
yhia two-base hits, Robinson, Jas Walker,
Huff, McWalters, Hays. Umpires, CLARK
aud Wilkins.
HaddOnfeld are scheduled for next Sat
urday.
Swedesboro defeated Elmer on Wednes-
day at Alcyon Park by score of to 5
The game was full of wrangliDg and looked
like Elmet's game until the ninth inning
when Swedesboro by great flush scored
five runs aud won the game. Score
Swedesboro, 0 1 0 0 0 O1 SIS
Elmer, o 0 0 2 0 2 D %
Tennis.