The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-11-23

Capt. Edward T.. warren, master
mariner, engineer and scientist,
has invented a new hydrogen motor
with which he expects to revolu-
tionize the science of production.
Captain Warren bears some re-
semblance to the wizard of cleo
tricity, Nikola Tesla, who speaks in
1.-THE highest terms Of Warren's
achievements in the engineering
world. ,.... Ell.
This invention is nothing less
revolutionary than manufacturing
fuel out of water-as Mr.. Tesla re-
marks, the process represents, in
the broadcast sense, the burning of
water. .,
We now secure power from
water by utilizing its weight on an
old fashioned water wheel or a
modern turbine. We also utilize the
power of water by turning it into
steam. Captain Warren,s inven-
ton separates the chemical CON
stituents of water and takes ad-
vantage of the explosive capacity
of these elements in recombining
to produce power. The product of
reconciliation is water, which, of
course, may be used over and over
as many times as extraneous forces
are applied to ,decompose or sep
arate it into its elements.
Burn water?" said Captain War
rem when Intercepted. only in
the sense in which we burn car
bonic acid. Both are products OF
combustion. The constituent ele-
ments of each are combustible
when isolated. The only problem
is to separate or isolate them after
they have once been combined.
This nature is constantly doing,
and we have only to accelerate or
short circuit her processes in or
der to restore Immediately these
combustible substances to their ele-
mental state and have them ready
to reunite at our bidding in the
phenomenon of combustion. Burn
ing, or combustion, is simply the
manifestation of the action OF
chemical affinity. We burn the
elemental substances, hydrogen
and oxygen, by bringing them to-
gether under conditions favorable
to the operation of the affinity
which causes them to unite in
new chemical compound which
when condemned is water. We sep
arate these elements by subjecting
their compound, water, to condi-
lions which overcome or neutralize
this affinity.
when we can burn hydrogen for
power, when the industrial world
awakes to the fact that prodigious
expenditures for coal and liquid
fuel are entirely unnecessary, and
that there is right within our grasp
an unlimited supply of fuel sub
stance available practically without
cost-for it is self compromising
there will be "a revolution in the in
dustrial world. When the century
old theories of the indestructibility
of matter and the conservation OF
energy and matter have once be-
come really understood by men,
we will witness the utter collapse
and extinction of one Of the Oldest
and most gigantic Of human INDUS
tries, the mining of coal.
"And further" he continued
"speed would receive a new I'M
pulse. We could have a so mile
boat and there day Lusitania. TO
day the fastest ship Of the seas car
ries 5000 tons of coal in her bunk
| ers and $4,000 tons of machinery
| necessary to drive her. BY the In
stallation of my propulsion devices
and new motive power the Luisi
tania would be SO lightened tha'
she could, by changing her con
struction somewhat. make the trif
i of 272O miles to Liverpool In three
1 DAYS or less. She would have more
cargo room and be free from the
terrific vibration that now charac
terizes all high speed ships, for the
lnew system does not involve ex
Il tensive machinery. 1t consists O.
| a process partly chemical ant
4 partly mechanical. The entire pro
polling mechanism now used wouit
be eliminated as the pressure o
expanding aqueous vapor would bf
lapplied directly to projecting watel
astern.'
AS applied to warships the IN
ventor believes that his new pro
pulsive power will be OF far reacn
ing importance and give the Amer
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