The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-02-26
PENSACOLA MANS
UNIQUE INVENTION
Claims Greatest Invention Since Watts
Perfection Of Steam
Engine.

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before the public today is the conten-
ton over the disposal OF the Muscle
/ Shoals water power, the nitrate plants
which have cost the tax payers Of the
! United States to date, over $50, 100000.
Several competitors are in the field,
making strong efforts to secure con-
troll OF this valuable property. Con-
siderable valuable time of congress
and the war department is consumed
in their endeavor to arrive at a sat
isfactory solution of this problem.
Now appears a Pensacola man with
a device for producing power by wa
ter that eliminates the costly dam en-
/ tirely. This appliance is a marvel, and
/ is the greatest achievement along me-
chanical lines since Watts perfection
of the steam engine. It's most promi-
nent features are its simplicity, it pos
sesses the merit of being portable, and
can be built in units as small as one
horse power, or constructed in size
large enough to develop 100000 II. p.
Where a body of water 25 feet square
exists, this motor can be used. It may
be located in the back yard of the or
binary dwelling house, for once this
tank % feet square is filled with wa
ter this motor uses that water over
and over continuously without any
loss whatever, only that subject to
evaporation. The power produced by
this motor would drive an electric
generator, and the current he applied
TO every known household purpose. as
,, 1t VIII furnish current so cheaply that
all household work can be done cleo
trically, heating the home. thereby dis
carding the present system Of house
heating, with its attendant pipes, flues
and it's smoke, coal bin and ash pile,
not mentioning the general cleanliness
that will follow the introduction of
electricity in the home. This device
is absolutely fool-proof, and requires
no attendant-only to be oiled occa-
sionally. A button pushed from any
part OF the house starts it, and the
same process stops it. 1t is entirely
automatic. Relative to its application
to large units, as concrete example, the
Pensacola Electric Co, are the most
extensive power users In the city, one
of these motors could be placed in
their yard or lot, and a tank built
commensurate with power required,
and all further cost for power would
cease. Tho same would apply to the
Bruce Dry Dock, or the Pensacola
Shipbuilding Co, or any other con-
sumers of large quantities of power.
AS this appliance Is being developed
to it's highest point of efficiency, soon
all railroads in America, and in fact
in the entire world can electrify, and
the steam locomotive will be a relic
of the past, and millions of tons of
coal now consumed annually to pro-
.duoe steam can be diverted to other
purposes, and a cheaper fertilizer can
be furnished than the widest flights
of our imagination ever conceived of.
The superiority of this invention over
existing methods of producing power,
is so palpably explicit that 1t leaves
no room for argument.
Tho dam system to generate water
power is as old as man. It's disad-
yantages are; 1t is usually situated in
some inaccessible place and requires
miles OF wire to transmit the current
generated at the dam to the nanufac-
turing centers, at an enormous cost
for line wire, and maintenance Of the
line. to say nothing of the loss of cur
rent in transit. Another point to con-
slider in connection with the dam, is
the amount OF land submerged that
could he utilized for agricultural pur-
poses. Still another, and the most i'm
portant of all, is the vast amount of
money invested in the dam and it's up
keep To revert back to the subject
under consideration, with the adoption
of this motor to everyday use, light,
heat and power can be furnished for
less money than is now charged for
light alone. Fertilizer can be manu-
featured for less money in Pensacola,
owing to its unexcelled port facilities,
than in any other place in the United
States, and it would not be necessary
then to transport the manufactured
article hundreds of miles to a seaport.
This device is not perpetual motion,
but is machine constructed on well
known principles, older than time it
self.