The Sentinel=record., 1914-01-31
FORD'S NEW IDEA
 OF POWER ENGINE
AUTOMOBILE MANUFACT URER WILL COME NEAR TO soLV-
 ING PERPETUAL MOTION.
New Combination Motor Will Con serve All Lost Heat and Power in Unique Manner

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 Henry Ford's recently announced
 plan for dividing $1000O,00O in prof it's annually among his thousands of employees has aroused widespread interest among the general public. | Varying opinions have been expresseo i as to the wisdom or praticability Of this policy, which has been charac- terized in many quarters as vision and Utopian. Ever since he jolted about Detroit in his first primitive eX- perimental automobile, Ford has been dreamer who makes his dreams some true, and he is not likely to wor- ry much over being called vGionary at this late date. Indeed, it is exact iy this daring quality of imagination
 which has been responsible for his re markable success.
 Almost at the same time that Mir.
 Ford announced his unprecedented profit sharing plan he startled the l tIEiHtt HIS WI ih III q AAbiAi'A AN-f" spectacular, perhaps but quite as rev. olutionary from a scientific and me chanical standpoint. He is preparing
 to spend a million dollars on what
 will come as ciose to a perpetual mo
 ton machine as the theoretical pro
 gress of modern sceince permits. The | perpetual motion inventor has been q standing joke for generations, but
 here comes Ford with a practical ap- gication of at least part of the will o-the-wisp of mechanics, and what is more he has placed million dollOrs l worth of contracts to embody his
 dream in the brick and stone and iron and steer of a gas engine, cleo
 tric power plant that will be absolute l ly unique. The power, to be turned into electricity and thus distributed through the great automobile factory l covering acres, will be produced by four big 5000 H. engines which may be best described as a hybrid of gas and steam. Some engineers when
 they first heard of the plan called 1t a mechanical nightmare Each en- zine will have four cylinders in tan- dem on each side, one pair of cylin- ders being operated by produced gas
 and the other by steam The steam will be generated from water heated
 in the water jacket of the gas engine,
 further heated by exhaust gases and by waste heat from the producer gas plant. Tine water or steam will be l used as the feed water for the boiler
 which supplies the steam engine cyl finders.
 This description may sound a lit- te technical but it will be exactly l the same effect as if one took hot water from the radiator of a gas
 oline motor car. further heated it
 around the exhaust pipe and with
 this water or steam operated a steam
 engine to help out the gas engine | cylinders in driving the automobile.
 This process carried to the limit
 would be practically perpetual 1 motion machine inasmuch as all en- ergy wasted in heat and friction
 would be utilized again and again.
 Any school boy has struggled with physics will have vague memories of the Jaw of conservation of energy. No energy is ever lost and Ford's s plan in this remarkable apparatus is to | round up as much as possible of the energy wasted by the ordinary engine
 in the form of heat The four 6,000 II. r. HamiltonGrey gas engines of this novel resign will drive the same number of 3750 K. w., 250 volts. so revolution, direct current generators having the largest capacities on rec ord for machines of this type These generators will be built by the Crock er-Wheeler Company of Ampere, N. l. an idea of the enormous size of this apparatus may be gained from the fact that it will be necessary to build it in sections to permit clearance through | tunnels and bridges in shipment
 from Ampere to Detroit.The genera
 tors will then be finally assembled
 at the Ford plant in Detroit.
 This remarkable power plant, by utilizing the energy usually lost in waste heat is expected to give the Ford factory the cheapest power in the world