Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1903-10-26
new MODEL
OF OIL ENGINE
Swedish Engineers Invention
Will ReyOIutiOnize the
Traffic

Especial Telegram to Evening Teiler.)
NEW YORK, Oct. 26.-Engineering
experts who have been privileged to in
spect a little launch that for several
weeks past has been fitting about the
Erie Basin ana by it's speed and evo-
buttons has been attracting the greatest
attention from marine men and others
are of the opinion that America is
about to contract another debt of
gratitude to. Swedish ingenuity. The
revolution wrought in naval architec-
ture by the Monitor of John Ericsson
promises to find a counterpart in the
realms of peaceful industry in the oil
engine invented by H. A. Bertheau, an
eminent Swedish engineer and inventor
lately arrived here from Stockholm.
Experts who have examined the en-
CINE and whose high standing gives
weight to their opinions unite in de-
claring that the engine is the persona
fication of simplicity and that the Sc
verest tests only tend to verify the
claims of the inventor. From all APP
pearances the engine, which is as
readily adaptable to a railroad loco
motive or a hosting crane as it is to a
launch or a cargo boat, possesses in
Vulnerable advantages over steam as a
motive power. One of the most i'm
! portant of these advantages and the
first to suggest itself to the observer
is the apparent ease with which the
engine is controlled and manipulated.
| Independent of size the engine is start
ed without any exertion and all man.
euvers are controlled by single lever,
! AS a motive power for passenger
| boats, tugs, lighters and cargo-boats
the engine possesses the incalculable
advantage of cheapness. Crude oil,
which is perhaps the most abundant as
well as the cheapest fuel product
| known TO mankind, may be employed
as readily and with. as good results as
refined petroleum. Then, again, the
engine requires but one man to run it,
thus saving the expense of stokers,
| beavers and others necessary in the
.operation of marine steam engine.
Another important item not TO be over
looked is the great saving in space as
! the oil engine requires no room for i'm
mense boilers and coal bunkers. For
| river boats and other vessels where
light draught is necessary this advant-
! age is of the greatest value. AS a
means of propulsion for small launches,
automobiles and for other purposes
| where the gasulene motor Is now com
monty employed the Bertheau engine
possesses the double advantage of
| cheapness and safety.
A thirty launch equipped with a
sixteen horsepower engine has been
tied up in the Erie Basin, close under
the stern of Sir Thomas Lipton's two
| challengers. Shamrock l. and Sham
| rock III. for several weeks, during
which time it has been inspected by
the engineering experts of several large
railTo Dads and steamship companies all
OF whom have expressed their unquali-
fed approval Not the least interested
of those who inspected the engine were
the heads of the great company which
enjoys a monopoly of the petroleum
I business in America and also repre-
sentatives of severaf of the great rail-
roads of the west and southwest that
for years have been endeavoring to en-
ploy oil as a motive power for their
engines.