Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1903-10-02
800 NILES N An HOUR
Fresh Claims of a Revolution
in Railway Travel.
A Ten-Hcrse Instinct Of an Hundred
HORSEPOWER Enslne-A Wonder
by Means Of approximations
tIcnal Patents Already Secured.

Three hundred miles an MUIR
A train without wheelsl
Such is the attractive claim made
for an invention of Dir. Albert G. Al
bertson. a distinguished electrical en-
gineer Of the Royal University OF Den
mark. At present Mr.. Albertson is
q citizen Of the United States. It -
purposed to accomplish this wonder
by means Of magnetism. Already he
has perfected his system and obtained
international patents.
DIR. Albertsons invention aims sim
ply to overcome the weight OF the
present railway train by means OF
powerful magnets. These are attach
ed to the bottom of the cars in such
way as to lift the wheels and render
a one thousand pound car as light rs
one pound. The attraction of gravity
being thus overcome, the heaviest
train becomes as light as air and can
be rushed along the tracks with only
atmospheric resistance to contend with
The magnets clamp the rail above and
below, so that 1t is impossible for the
train to leave the track.
At present sixty miles an hour-a
mile a minutes practically the
maximum speed. and to accomplish
this the weight and drawing power OF
the locomotive have been Increased
until a three thousand horse power
engine must be attached to the front
of a flyer. AS the weight of the en-
CINE increases the weight OF the
rails carrying the engine increases,
as does the general wear and tear on
the road bed. The limit of weight,
power and speed has been reached,
and the railroads acknowledge them
selves unable to do much better. TWO
things defeated the attainment or
greater speed-the dead weight OF
train and aerial resistance.
Now comes the announcement that
there has been discovered method
of abolishing the dead weight OF the
train, leaving only aerial resistance TO
be contended with. Ii this can be
done. as Mr.. Albertson asserts, half OF
the battle is won, and the world may
vet be able to travel on the earth's
surface with the much dreamed OF
speed of hundreds of miles an hour.
For many years the great principle OF
magnetism has been known to elecsTl-
clans and used in practical work by
laymen. Steel companies have found
the magnet useful in lifting huge
metal Orders. At one end OF their
lifting apparatuses they have placed a
magnet, which when charged grips the
steel bars and lifts them, no matter
how great their weight. 1t has been
noticed that a magnet would move 10
| come in contact with the steel bar as
soon as 1t arrived within the drawing
radius, carrying any amount OF weight
with it which happened to be attached
| at the time.
It is this principle which DIR. Albert
| son sought to make use of-the lifting
| power of a magnet when attached to
| the bottom of the car so that they
| came under the rail and about an inch
below It. Then he turned on enough
| electricity to make the magnets active
| They rose upward toward the rail, Int
! ing the car bodily in the air. The
weight of the train was thus simply
| overcome!
The inventor next loaded heavy
| metal into his miniature car until II
| weighed several tons. The magnets
clamped tightly against the rail and
refused to slide easily. But as he
loaded on the weights he found thai
the car moved easier the more weight
he applied up to the point where q
balance was determined between the
weight above and the attractive force
% the magnets below. The entire
weight of the car and it's load was
held up by magnetic force. Practical
ly the attraction of gravitation was
abolished. The car no longer weighed
anything. Instead of bearing heavily
down upon the track it pulled up
ward; and to make it run easily al
one had to do was to add more weight
more load-in the car, completely
reversing the existing order of things
where it is a case of the greater the
load the heavier the train and the
slower.
The invention is simple. The traiI
readily slides upon its magnets, thu
under side of the track being KEEP
well oiled. The wheels are left above
the magnets, running on the top o
the rail, without carrying any weight
but simply left there to act as guide
for the train and to prevent it from
leaving the track. High speed il
therefore perfectly safe.
at is all matter of plus and min
us" says DIR. Albertson. IF you hav'
number of magnets attached to you
car under the rail, adhering with F.;
force equal to eleven tons and yoV
add a weight of ten tons to your. ca
you leave one ton of pressure remain
ing. This pressure is distributes
through a number of magnets, ami tn,
power required to slide them alonI
the rail will be very small. hav'
great hopes for the future of the cleo
tro magnetic railway. 1t will be bet
ter than any present system, in tina
it can generate five times the speed
even to three hundred miles an hour
There viii be onesixth of the ex
pense in iron structure and running
power because the rails can be mad
lighter and the hosse power Of thu
engine reduced from three Thousand