The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-01

it is d simple proposition in mechanics
and engineers Of standing and repute tc
whom the matter has been submitted,
have declared that the theory IS correct
and the only obstacles TO be overcome
are those CT mechanical construction OF
the apparatus In these days no problem
OF mechanical construction should trouble
Us long"
i have found some men so conservative
that they refuse to take my invention
seriously. It was so with Watt. Bell. Ed
son and Marconi. I have. however con-
WINGED some of the most sceptical ones
who have examined my work and they
than I am as to the possibilities of my in
vention-'
My experiments and investigations
have been confined almost to procuring
power from the normal heat of the at
nosphere by utilizing low temperature
and liquid gases. That is. I take air OF
other gas and expand it in a vacuum in
sulated engine. and Use the extremely
cold exhaust 10 refriserate the successive
charges under pressure supplied by the
engine. Where this process is carried on
for time the exhaust liquifies.
Using the exhaust from one cylinder
70 condense that OF another total liqui-
fication is produced, and If air is emoioye
the result is liquid air. This liquid air
contains no power in itself, and 1 make
none OF the ext-avagant claims for it that
others have done; but when placed in a
boiler similar to one in which steam is
generated. it Will boil if air at normal
temperature is admitted and = vapor will
be produced that will operate an expan-
sion engine. The vapor is reliquefied and
again returned to the boiler, furnishing
continuous power
Now. this IS not perpetual motion
according to the popular notion. have
no machine which perpetrates by itself
its own motion without the expenditure
OF any energy That is Missionary scheme
and although ii is mechanical absurdity.
a surprising number of persons have de-
voted their attempts to solve the fasci-
mating problem. The continuous power
which I have developed is obtained by
converting heat into motion or work the
same as any other power. The conversion
is a continuous operation as a natural
result OF the continuous difference in
temperature by which the power is pro-
duced
1T is now an accepted theory-or. !
might say, 2 demonstrated truth-that
heat and motion are one and the same.
Sadi Carnot. the founder Of the modern
sure OF this theory in 1924. Now. however
proofs are beyond question Lord Bacon
declared in 1920 that heat is motion. but
for two hundred and fifty years leading
This shows how conservative is the human
mind and how difficult It is to overcome
prejudice
Garnet hit the bulls eye OF the truth
when he declared. Whenever there exists
a difference OF temperature motive power
can be produced This is now recognized
as a self-evident axiom among thinkers
ard engineers. (And it follows that a con-
tiruous difference OF temperature would
mean continuous power
with ny apparatus produce the diff
ference OF temperature which Garnet
says is sil that IS required 10 produce
power BY Transforming the heat Of the
atmosphere into work and incidentally
making liquid air as a by-produet- I am
able 70 operate the engine continuously.
mechanical refrigeration. the result OF the
conversion OF heat into work or power in
an expansion engine. Is a by-product.
Temperature is not power-it is simply a
manifestation
IN transformation OF heat into power
the fall OF temperature IS mere evidences
OF a change q by-product OF the operation
II has cost 70 energy to produce the
liquid air ard ii may be utilized over and
over again IN TIE operation OF the en-
CINE
II. Places apparatus consists OF an
ordinary expansion engine. such as :
used 70 orcTats dynamo Or % osle-
mechanical work. and = boiler somewhat
similar - 2 srsn tubular stea-, gene
rstor The cylinders OF the engine sre
enclosed n 4 vacuum jacket and packed
with insulating material The boiler IS
protected in like manner from the heat
of the air. Tubes forming q COZ surround
the cylinder and whsa the engine is
started compressed air is passed through
these tuses. Al air compressor IS used
10 start the machine.
II is .cls.ulei that air at Is pounds
pressure ana q degrees Fahrenheit when
sent through the tubes and expanded in
the ersine. viii reduce the te-npera ture
TO Is0 degrees below zero. The operation
repeated With the same pressure bat
a lower initial temperature each tine.
VII it il claimed, son produce the intense
cold - % degrees below zero-which IS
the fiqGefying roirt or air under "a
pounds or prsssure-zad 81 degrees AZ
ar-cSohsri. pressure
As the air cozdenses 20 liquid form K
r2<zsS iHsa 2n Insulated receiver. where