Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1901-05-01
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OUTDOOR MACHINERY.
0ne Glass of Engine That IL Not
housed 10 Protect IL From the
weather

0ne Glass Of Engine That IL Not
Aoused 10 Protect IL From the
Weather.
The oldest type OF engine represented
ut the Pan-American Exposition Is the
windmill. The earliest mention we
have OF n windmill being employed to
do any work was In Alexandria $50
B. c.. when an invention driven by
wind power was employed to operate a
musical instruusent. AS even this must
have been the product OF evolution IL
leaves us entirely In the dark as to
the actual origin. However, we know
that windmiTls were employed In use
full labor In many parts OF Europe long
before Columbus discovered America.
These Old windmills were quaint af-
fairs. Some OF them floated on wa
ter and were turned by hand 20 meet
the vay1ries OF the wind. later de-
velopment was built on n post and stiIl
later the roof OF the building was pivot
ed. which allowed the building itself to
remain stationary.
II remained for the engineers or tho
nineteenth century TO construct q wind
engine that was at once simple. useful
and practical The amount OF power
developed and usefuIiy applied by this
time honored invention amounts I'm
the aggregate To hundreds of thou
sands of horsepower.
At the Pan-AmericaP Exposition a
group Of windmills will be gathered to-
gether and planted IN a corner or the
grounds. where they will be required
TO pump water and in other ways
demonstrate their usefulness. These
will comprise mapy different types.
showing the evolution OF the engine
from the old fashioned four saH pat
tern down TO the ordinary multitudi-
nous sprocket plan in which the sail
area is automatically adjusted 10 the
wind pressure and the speed is regu-
lated by governor. Some or these
engines Will develop tremendous
power. while others are simply devised
as a cheap and reliable means, OF work
ing farmers pump.
Experiments extending over; Il period
OF years have been conducted for the
purpose OF generating electricity by
this means. Developments along these
lines SO far have not been entirely sat
isfactory. though indications point to
ultimate SUCCESS. The difficulties met
with are principally owing To the in
constancy OF the wind. which must
be overcome Ivy storing upitbe energy
OF the Ga&e 70 he given of sS required.
AS the slow development OF. Ibe storage
battery ratards this important achieve
ment We await with impaIience the
improvements mithis direction that we
know ought 10 Ia made. The time will
undoubtedly oGDre when electric light
ing will be done in this MP nner-in
fact. the slectric light plant in a viii
lage so Scotland is now partially op-
Grated by IA winL wheel which Is built
on the horizon tai principal
To those unfauilar with the pro-
duction Of the wind engine ~ used at
the present time q visit to this section
OF the Exposition will he a a,rsvelation
Hitherto this early invention shas been
useful merely TO the farmer ard stock
man. Possibilities i'm the Immediate
future pOtDt to a much wider and more
extended uBefulBess when power from
this source will be bottled up 10 storage
batteries and shipped to distant points
to be used tn the mechanic artG.