The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-03
Scientific.
A NEW9 MOTIVE ! POWER.

A NEW MOTIVE POWER.
Thomas Guinon an electrical engineer
| of New York. has invented an engine,
| now exhibited at that city, which occu-
! pies but half the space Of an ordinary en-.
| CINE and is said to reduce the cost OF
power to 1-S OF a cent an hour for one
! horse power Hydrogen, oxygen and car
bon, derived from oil, water and air. fur
nish the power. Crude oil Is used as fuel
| The Invention is expected to revolutionizo
| the methods NJ az producing and using
mower. A New#York syndicate has &C.
uuired the patents for this country.
SMALLPOX GERM DISCOVERED.
AT the meeting Of the Boston Medical
| Society, Tuesday, DR.. William ". Coun \
| Gilman, professor of pathology IN the
Harvard Medical School announced ms
| discovery of the germ of smallpox. fie
! has found that the disease IS caused py Z. a
micro-organism representative, q me
! lowest form of animal life. This relates
~ "a malaria and distinguishes 1t from
| many other con tagious diseases caused py
bacteria. e Dr. Counciman's discovery IS
4 tho result OF nvestlgations during the re-
/ cent smallpox epidemic IN Boston. ~ - y
attracting widespread attention ana - III, -
i exnected that cure for the disease WIN
i now be found.
I EDIsON,s LATEST INVENTION
.rhomas a. Edison has perfected q ma
! chine to separate gold from placer gravel
i without the use Of water, an air piast pc ,.
l ling used instead. Tho gravel whlch y
eXcavated with steam snovei. - I pas'I =
/ over a series of screens that sepa ray! :. :.
\ INTO narticles Of uniform size 'When u y
I y,laced in a hopper and fed through
narrow slit. falling ina thin screen. An ar
, blast removes the gravel, Whlie the soiu'
4 which Is heavier, falls to the bottom AZ
4 most undefled The mas =! De el'
. tested at the Ortiz Mine near SAME ! y
\ lei scrRo-PNEUA1ATIc TRANSPORT : y -
ALTON.
I 4 new method Of railway PROPULSION Is
} being tested publicly at Lansing Me- !.
by B. j. Arnold. an electrical ehglnee. -
Chicago, which Is expected TO decrease
h q to 40 per cent, the cost OF equipment
. Mr. Arnold in q press dispatch last week
sn,d that the principles OF MS electro-
rraumetic system were "a single phase
. or multi-motor running continuously y. .
constant speed and q constant t =. :,
a! therefore, Mt maximum sulllcle!'cy. ~ -.
n air storage feature IS designer ~ n't an
Z each car an independently unit IN case ing y
e current is lost
y NEW THEORY or MAGNETISM. is
Tho contention that we have a.! along
p been wrong In supposinS that Q I'VE So
q 7
4 allel to Its axes which polarizes inc partl-
cles Of iron In Its core, is made py Herr
= | Zncharias OF Berlin In O sclentltic l1aPet'
4 His theory is that the current IN tthe So
"a lcnoid creates n reduction of either pres
x sure in the core so that agnetlc lorce y
a entirely an electric pressure phenomenon
n that is to say there lS no such gthlns %
mnrnntic attraction. I'd Ra Their the nrma'
turc Is forced against the pores y 1'S
NV tho nrnSSllro5 OF clUeE,
AsTRoNo MERs AGA1NsT WALLACE
Several famous astronomers now hays
made answer to the recent q rticle by q
! fred Russell Wallace on = Man 8 place y
: the Universe" In which 1t was contendec
that this planet was most likely thc cen
| tire Of all material things. u. w. Maundel
former president of the BRUSH Astro
ncmical Society. writing In .knoWledge
calls attention to the known fact that oui
solar system is moving across the MILKY
Ways enclosure. In tho last ! dependent
: Camille Flammarlan, the q Frenchman, IN
sists that 1t Is Impossible to- determine
/. the position Of our sun precisely enough
. to justify tho Wallace Inference anf
points out that ut least thirty stars ar
. conceded to be much larger than our suI}
, IIo also asks why Wallace Ignored Jupl
ter, "the world Of tho future in our sys
tenn" ST y,
PREHISTORIC ARCHITECTURE,
) Experts W. II, Holmes and DELANEY
Gill OF the Smithsonian lnstltutloh NJ
Z nov prenarinu elaborate models of struc
; ture erected by early races on this CONT
r nent for the St. Louis Exhibition: me hrs
9 completed one is that Of the temple I. :.
Q xochlcalcos, Buildings OF ms, tWe'ye e.Y
+ ilIzed peoples of prehistoric Noflh h'e I
lea, living south of New Mexico, VIII
= shown,
o A NEW ATOMIC THEORY
d stephen NJ. Babcock, professor Of agrl
$ cultural chrmistrv 1t the University 0
II Wisconsin. announced "Wednesday bef fo
: the University Sciences Club asreyolu.io !,
any theory Of atomic energy as NY 's ssa
G Of twenty years research rs man ~ !. te y
! ure Is that the weight OF an ~
), is nyerseiy proportional to It's inheren
i energy. This leads to the Idea 14at 2
y atoms are primarily Identical si5y