New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-06
l-CENT GAS WAN
SEESNEW WIZARD
Henry Schweyer Sure He
Can Slice Price of
Coal in Two.

II there should arise second Jules
Verne, avid for material 10 build a
Enthusiastically speculative pseudo-scien-
tifc tale. tho instinct Of genius would
carry him straight 10 Farmingdale,
Long Island.
Here dwells Louis II. Enricht, in
ventor of the mystical green fluid TO
which only water has TO be added, and,
presto to all intents and purposes
gasolene. Here dwells Louis, jr., Of
the golden front tooth and the sparse
ly populated upper lip. co-inyentor with
his father Of the homemade ruby, non
inflammable paint, imitation concrete,
fiuoride binder (Which when judicious-
ly sprinkled upon a feather bed will
stifen it into tombstone), radium
water and other knick-knacks.
And here yesterday afternoon came
one Henry A. Schweyer Of Norristown,
Penn. armed only with pleasant
Pennsylvania Dutch handshake and a
leather satchel. Henry Of Norristown
stated that he would slice the price OF
a ton Of coal in half!
Ford Would Have Been Welcome.
II is rather too bad that Henry
Ford. Of Detroit, did not make his
third trip to the home of the inventor
Yesterday. The automobile manutac-
turer has, admittedly. penchant Tor
cheap things. Surely, he would nave
been pleased 10 hear Henry OF Norris
town describe with what ease the SIM
pie process Of disintegrating steam into
hydrogen and oxygen and allowing 1t
to reunite over a CRATE Of glowing Goals
almost doubled the amount of work of
which a pound of coal is normally ca
pablo.
Henry of Norristown, like his paci-
fstic prototype, is a pioneer. The De-
troit inventor believes the dove TO be
king Of fowls. And the Ncrristown
self-taught scientist believes, in oppo-
sition to the physical ana chemical
major premise that you cannot take
from anything more than was put into
it," that you can.
He bases his theory upon the bellef
that there Is m inc gas, hydrogen
latent power. II was Tor confirmation
Of this belief that he called upon the
Farmingdale chemist. lie got il. For
the basis of that green fluid, the FOR
mula of which is known only by IN
RIGHT and his son, is the release OF
hydrogen from water and the potential
power of hydrogen gas.
Heat is the form of energy Schweyer
uses. And he does it after this fashion:
Take an ordinary boiler In place OF
the fire brick, build the refractory I'M
ings OF the freboX of carborundum
Carborundum has seven times the neat
conductivity of ordinary friedrich,
Schweyer says. Back OF that place an
insulating layer of Sil-O-Cel. which has
a very low thermal conductivity. Build
combustion chambers Of perforated
carborundum into the refractory lining.
Gets New Heating Capacity.
Now. from the exhaust OF the engine
run by the boiler, take the steam, run
it by q experimenting pipe under the
boiler and pass it through the combus-
ton chambers in the refractory lining.
Il arrives at temperature OF 1900 de-
erees Fahrenheit. The temperature in
side the frebox should be approx
mately 200 degrees Fahrenheit.
Two-thirds of the steam is dissoci-
ated at this temperature. according to
Schwever. II passes over the Goals, re-
combines with its own oxygen, thus
creating heat, passes under the boiler,
helping TO generate more steam, and
finally out OF the chimney in the form
of water vapor.
Every nine pounds of steam thus dis
ISOLATED has. according 10 the versa
tile stone salesman. $3.50 British
thermal units. And. he says, the value
of the thermal units OF the coal used
in heating the steam up 70 the point
Of dissertation Is not lost. In other
words. the heating capacity Of the coal
remains. plus that caused by the re-
combination Of the associated hydro
gen and oxygen as water yapor.
50 Does Work of s6.
According 70 Henry, Of Norristown,
twice the work now derivable from
pound of coal can be got BY the use
Of his hydrogen gas Or, ton Of coal,
selling at say. So, will do S6 worth OF
work.
But Schweyer does not stop here.
He has another idea. In place Of steam,
send superheated air through the COM
bustion chambers, consuming the free
carbon monoxide. Everything would
be oxidized. There would be no waste,
no dirt. no dust, no smoke. Even Pitts
burgh could turn into a spotless city.
Henry of Norristown went home last
night. lie has been working for three
years on this invention. lie applied
for a patent on February 20, and It's
still pending.