The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-22
OLD METHODS REvOLUTIoNIzED.
What n New and Novel Invention
VIII Accomplish.

What n New and Novel Invention
VIII Accomplish.
A novel invention, which promises to
revolutionize the methods of lighting
heating, and cooking in the twentieth cen
fury, has been perfected by a Chicago
man, Henry W. Royal, who is now in
| Washington demonstrating the wonderful
F, results obtained by means of his ideas. AT
| ter forty years of endeavor on the part of
| inventors, this man, a printer, has solved
the problem of illumination, heat, ard
power for municipalities or private homes,
at so inexpensive rate as to bring these
necessities within the reach OF all. He has
Just applied for patents on gas, pro-
Queer, or generator. of such apparent
merit that a number of local engineers
and scientific men who have examined Ii,
pronounce ii the most simple, and yet the
most efficient device yet produced in this
line Of invention.
The generator, which is now on exhi-
bition at 93S + Street northwest, consists
of two little upright tanks, connected by
pipes, together with brass controller
The entire outfit might be placed in
spare corner in room and hardly be no.
ticed, yet one gallon CT common stove OIL
together with a few gallons OF ordinary
Potomac water, placed in the machine will,
in less than minute, generate $500 can
die power of gas, which is SO far superior
TO electricity as TO attract attention, and
which makes an acetylene light appear
dim. This is done at cost OF 10 IL cents.
or the cost of gallon of ordinary stove
oil. The little generator, the inventor
claims and demonstrates. will light store
more brilliantly than any store. In Wash
ington is Illuminated today, fer 10 cents
per night of six hours, as enc gallon of
oil will last that time. Further than this,
one generator will supply light. heat, cook
ing facilities. and power for motors or en-
gines, for s25 per year.
The beautiful brilliancy OF the light 3D.
tanned must be seen to be appreciated.
There is no Pickering and no waste; no
odor and none of the divers objections
found in common gas, acetelyne and
electricity. The patent burners can be SO
regulated with air as to give an intense
heat for cooking purposes, or cool, clear
light for illuminating purposes. Each
single Welsbach burner is made to give a
light of 500 candle power. so that three |
lamps will brilliantly illuminate any store |
100 feet deep. The heating is CD ainel at |
one-half the cost of wood or c5al, while |
the cost of light can be seen by COM |
parison with other methods.
The generator is absolutely safe and has |
been passed by the National Board of Fire /
Underwriters. IL consists of a tank into |
which the oil may be poured, as into a |
lamp. No flame or combustible is used.
The other tank, ne-third full of. naphtha,
is regulated by stopball. rhe oil Is
forced at steady pressure through the
naphtha and bubbles out in the form of
air or the gas which gives
such wonderful results. There is no
and nothing complicated. A
company is being organized to manu-
facture the generators and lease them out
by the year. In one of the generators a
man would have gas plant, a furnace, a
means of cooking without using coal or
wood. and an engine, all for fat sum
per year, and all for few gallons OF COM
mon oil. Local machinists and scientists
who have seen the generator pronounce it
wonderful affair and claim that 1t has
solved the question of light, heat, and
power without the cumbersome fur mace
and stove the unsatisfactory and danger
aus coal gas, and the bulk and labor of
boilers and steam engines. Those who
pass by the store on F Street are COM
PEELED to enquire as to the nature OF tn
81 clearly brilliant is II