The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-01
RIVALS WORK
Of A1RC(|I|
Engineer invents Power From
Heat of Air.
LIKE PERPETUAL MOTION
But Is Practical and VIII Rev.
olutiOnize Commerce.

New York., Jan 3l-The New York
Herald says:
Energy from the athmosphere Power
equivalent TO a thousand harnessed Ma
gras. produced with no expenditure fer
fuel and continuous in its operation
that is the hold claim of a New York
inventor.
Patents have been granted and machin-
inery Is now under construction that
threatens to revolutiouize the Industrial
world
Before this year is out the promise is
cry is now under construction that
motive power Is derived from the heat
that units in the atmosphere and that in
the near future every workshop may OBJ
tain power in unlimited quantity at a
trifing cost. Possibilities not dreamed Of
by Jules Verne are BY the claims OF the
inventor. who says that his discovery,
while it may at FIRST appear incredible.
is less marvellous than Nareonfs feat of
sending wireless messages across the
ocean
Yet IL this method of utilizing latent
heat OF the atmosphere becomes an estab-
nshed fact. coal mines may be abandoned,
fast ships may move or the sea without
steam. may DE EEA9lt0 nun lliN
air they pass through. electricity may he
generated. wheels Of factories may be
turned. houses may be illuminated and
mans burden of toll made many times
lighter
~Continuous power IS the name given
the new process It's inventor lays stress
upon the fact that il is rot perpetual
motion that ingnis fatuus which many
men have pursued and none have over
taken, though some OF them have found
Is made in the-new machine TO override
the recognized laws of physics Gravity
Is not required to overcome itself. as
is the case with most devices aiming to
produce perpetual motion
Instead OF attempting the impossible
the inventor has utilized difference in
temperature TO produce motive power
James Watts theory from which the
steam engine was evolved. and the theory
OF this later invention are Identical The
!. difference in Jhe application is that in
stead Of the engine and boiler surrounded
tv air OF normal temperature and heat
anpIief by the consumption Of coal or
other fuel. the new apparatus is enclosed
in q vacuum Jacket and cooled 10 a tenn
perature OF 500 degrees below zero ard
the heat OF the atmosphere utilized to
produce vapo-. The expansion OF this
vapor in 3 cylinder operates an engine
and power results.
The inventor is James E. Place, 2 con-
sulting engineer, OF No. s47 Broadway
who lives at Glen Ridge. y J. He is 50
years o-t sad has for the last thirty years
been a practical mechanical and constFur-
ting erg.aesr He has built mining en-
gines Ia San Francisco. gas engines in
Cannectirsls and refri-eratins plants n
his city. lie says he has worked upon
the theory of ostainiag continuous power
from the Eea, OF the atmosphere but it
IS only ressen1iy that he has succeeded
IN devissESsn engine chat win WORK
During his earliest experiments he used
q refrigerator car 70 keep his apparatus
cool; but he has abandoned that and is
now building an engine. enclosed in
vacuum jacket. which he says VIII be
running Ia six months.
Out at Chen Ridge. where Mr. Place IS
regal ded IS orc ~ the sahs1s initial meub-
ers OF tbs community. his neiehSors say
that he Is no dreamer. but IS level headed
thorough knoHiedge OF mechanics. Those
srsosle them however. who have seen lei
into the secret Of Mr.. Places invention
OF an eagi.e that runs Itself witha.t
cost. hzse had their fgifh in hfT. shaken
Aes sarov Up thei- hands and say that
I am st=zrpfsng the Impossible said NJ
Place. 7 tsll them that | have seuaa-
sfrnted IL. They say Il cannot be trre
eecsuee IL it were true I would have
oAe yhsle world at my feet RELY that