The Boise citizen., 1907-08-23
THE PASSING OF STEAM
Interior COMBUSTION engine A FACT OF THE
IMMEDIATE FUTURE

The evolution the automobile may bring about complete
engines transportation The Oregonan
treats the in this interesting manner
1t said by experts that the combustion engine bids fair
dspace the coabnng engine in manufactures and
poraon said change would 5000
600 of the annual spent for COAL nothing of the
cleanliness and comfort which would city dwee and
eers The internal combustion engine makes smoke and produces
little odor leaves behind trail of foul and irritating cinders
while according accounts develops power economically
than any of its predecessors For fuel may either gasoline
alcohol indeed any other substance which transformed into
combustbe gas comparatively temperatures The gas
generated mixed with air. and the active comes from
the explosion of the The force of the explosion popes the
piston much the principle the expansion of Of
if situation employ gas already generated he
make still further savings The engine may be connected d
ecy with city mains when these avalabe otherwise gas
be generated it is needed
Internal combustion engines have already been introduced upon
all entering New York from the North "WitHn few
years. says The Independent edtora there will be coaburn
locomotives engaged the service between New York
Albany Of the Innovation
praccaby and economy assured will rapidly extend We
gasoline trains running between New York and Chicago
requires little stretch of the imagination them running
smoothly and smokelessy upon the ranscontinenta roads,
The belief which prevailed years ago that electricity
would be the motive power of the future have been mistaken
producing electric energy large fraction of the potential value
the fuel wasted and scientists entertain little hope that this diff
Guilty be remeded extent 1t this unavoid
waste combined with the difficulties of electric transmission
which makes electric light comparatively costly Of where
waterpower available is almost everywhere Oregon ec
city may compete successfully with the internal combustion engine
elsewhere has been proposed by arseeng economists
like Oregon which have been povidentay endowed with
abundant waepower should the public under the
eregn light domain instead of permitting be grabbed
by private This would keep the price of gasoline
within extends with the adoption of the
engine The law permitting the unrestricted manufacture OF
dnatued alcohol will tend the benecen end Having
foosy the of gasoline be monopzed by trust
we must now such partial remedies devise
the value appears of the Presidents
for public benefit such fragments of national
coal deposits lost The probable future of
this coal is consumed in furnaces and locomotives but
transformed gas internal combustion engines The
ing would of wood Not only would the present
be emated but there would be
economy transportation Nobody knows accurately yet how far
gas can be transported pipes But likely that in future
not very far will be made into gas the and the
product pped perhaps hundreds OF miles away
Perhaps this way the pipe lines of the Standard Oil Company
may be put still better than the transportation of petroleum
There is burning petroleum by the method
Part of goes up 1t would be better first generate gas
from it.
According the internal combustion which has
secured the triumph automobile slowly but surely eectng
transformation industry less striking than that which
compished by the steam engine.