Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-26
NO LONGER AN TEMPERAMENT.
Worlds Greatest Power.

| Worlds Greatest Power.
Mr.. Tripler has perfected the appli-
cation Of liquid air as power, and the
Tripler Liquid Air Co. alone stands
ready to furnish this power. This
force is 100 times as powerful as
steam. 1t is but question of time
when all engines, stationary or loco
motive, will utilize liquid air in place
of steam, naphtha, gas or electricity
as motive power, and in cheapness nc
other motive power ever discovered
can compare with it. In its application
to steamships, liquid air will save to a
vessel using 100 tons of coal per day
$1,000 per round trip across the At
| lantic; to a vessel using 500 tons pei
day $4,000 per round trip. Figure
for yourself, from your own know
edge Of the steam water traffic in the
| world, the enormous total which the
company's annual profits from this
| one use must assume
Suppose, for instance, there were
but 100 steamships engaged in the
Atlantic transportation service, that
they were all of the lowest grade Of
coal consumption named, and that
they made but one round trip each
| per month. Look at the annual saw
ing So,6oo,ooo-almost the entire
capital of the Tripler Liquid Air Co.,
and an equal division of the saving
assures the company so per cent an
nual profit on its capital stock from
this one source alone.
Locomotives.
By the utilization of the great pre-
ponderance of oxygen contained in
liquid air, thereby generating far
higher degree of combustion in coal
than is now attained by the most adj
vanced methods, the increase from
the present power secured of about
10 per cent is derived to such an ex-
tent that the saving in the cost of fuel
will be fully so per cent, say nothing
of the enormous saving in dead
weight.
When one stops to consider the
hundreds of thousands of locomo-
tives now in use over the entire
| world, he cannot fail to be amazed bv
the marvellous possibilities in this
singlebranch ofutilization of liquid air.
Automobiles.
Prof. G.. A. Bobrick, noted Rus
sian engineer, a graduate of the
School of Technology at St Peters
burg, states that from the investiga-
ton and experiments made, it is per
fectly practical to apply liquid air as
motive power to automobiles, one OF
which is now in course of construc-
ton.
The space occupied.by the storage
battery in an electric vehicle COM
prises 10 cubic feet, which, when fill
ed with liquid air, will drive the We
hicle for 900 miles at from a to Il
cent per mile.
Great Industry
of Refrigeration.
Mr.. Tripler has accomplished the
practical employment of liquid air
as the most economical refrigerant
ever known. 1t possibly would not
occur to those who had not investi-
gated the subject what the expense
of ice amounts to. Take one branch
alone, the transportation OF fruit from
California to the east. Liquid air
represents here an annual saving of
$I,3Io,ooo; as the Tripler Liquid Air
Co. alone can supply the material to
effect this saving, it is in a position to
name its own division of this amount
with the shipper-therefore, its own
share as profits.
AS the first step in this direction, a
subcompany, known as the Tripler
Liquid Air Company of California,
has recently been formed, and is now
erecting large works at Los Angeles;
Cal, and making preparations to
equip 1000 cars for transcontinental
| fruit shipment.
F. P. Fay, president of the Fay
Fruit Co., the largest fruit shippers
in the United States, is president OF
the subcompany, and royalties paid
to the parent company should Of
themselves alone pay very hand
some dividend upon the entire cap
ital stock.
And the transportation of fruit is
but one small item Of the long list Of
refrigerating employments for liquid
air.
Gerald M. Femme
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