The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-15
SANTAFE TRIES IT
Invention Of c. =. L. Baker In
stalled in Railway Coach.
Will RevOlutionize Many Known
Principles of Physics.
POWER is MULTIPLIED.
Depends OH Principle of Friction
and Superheated Steam.
Bale Wagner the Man Who
Gave Baker a Start.
POWER is MULTIPLIED.

| Is c. S. L. Baker, a negro, destined
to go down in history as a man who
has revolutionized heating methods, the
production OF mechanical power, and
the foundation principles of physics?
Baker is man who claims to be able
to take three horsepower of electricity.
and convert it into five horsepower in
steam. On the same principle he can
convert the five horsepower into ten,
and keep on multiplying Indefinitely.
This Is the heretofore unsolved principle
of perpetual motion.
The Santa Fe railway mana cement
has SO much confidence in Mr. Bakers
wonderful invention that it has allow
ed him to equip one of its coaches on
the train which runs between st. JOS
eph and Topeka with his new tangled
heater. The work has been done at
the Santa Fe shops in this city, and
the car is now ready for its first trip.
If the heater does what Mr.. Baker
says it will. it means that the Santa
F'e will equip all it's coaches with the
possible.
The Chicago Great Western is expert
menting With a similar heater, and 50
IS the st. Louis Electric Street railway,
and the Atchison Street railway.
Bale Waggener of Atchison was the
first man to give Mr.. Baker start. He
allowed him to install one of his heat
ers on an Atchison street car. and it
is giving good satisfaction. so Mr..
Baker says. The heater was put into
service 80 days ago.
Now about the wonderful heater
for it certainly is wonderful. 1t con-
sists of two cylinders of iron. Inside
of the inner cylinder is a core of steel,
and fitted around this core are four
pieces of hickory wood which occupy
nearly all the remaining space in the
inner cylinder. Between the inner and
outer cylinders are several gallons of
water. BY revolving the inner cylin-
der with great rapidity. an intense h eat
is generated. and the water is raised to
and into radiator of ordinary type of
manufacture. The steam becomes
superheated.. and the heat is tremend-
Gus. That's all there is to the inven-
ton.
It don't understand the reasons for
all this said Mr.. Baker today. "All
know is that I have been interested
III friction heat for % years We pay
out 100000 a year for grease to pre-
vent heat by friction. Why shouldn't
we save some of that heat? Why let
it1 go to waste I have studied me-
cflanics considerably. but neither I Tor
which I have hit upon for generating
heat All I know is that it works. The
wooden pieces play against cushion
of air. There is no rubbing. son-.the
metal. 1t is the friction of the air
against the metal that heats the water.
Bit the wood is not heated. I can put
a. piece of tissue paper inside that in
ner chamber. and. 1t is not scorched-
The heat all goes outward"
Mr. Baker has interested a number OF
Topeka people in the invention His
brother has had one of the machines on
exhibition in building on East Seventh
street for some weeks. but Mr. Baker him
self only arrived in town few days ago
c. e Hawley said today; 1T is a Won
derfu1 invention. don't understand IT,
but it seems to do what Baker says it
will do"
Der of other leading Santa Fe officials
have inspected the invention, and while
they don't understand it, they have given
Baker a chance to show what the heater
will do in actual work The heater used
on the car is placed under the floor. and
is operated from the axle Of the car. 1t
costs nothing to operate it, The machine
is merely a cylinder 36 inches long and y.
inches in diameter.
For heating houses Mr.. Baker has
small machine about foot long which
can be placed in the cellar to operate
system for the whole house. The ma
chimes are manufactured by tire Garvey
Machine company Of St. Joseph. st.
Joseph is Mr.. Bakers home
Baker claims to have all the financial
backing he needs. He IS not trying to
sell stock but is simply demanst %ating 70
railroad officials and others the possible
ties 70 his invention
The most freakish thing about Baker
and his Invention IS that he tries to -prove
that 1t is founded on Biblical PRINCIPLES,
the same principles that protected the He
brew children in the burning fiery furnace