New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-08-11

BRITAIN DAILY HERAL
paratus using such an engine was
not a wagon, but a steamship. He
built other such ships one launched
on the lake og Geneva in 1857. He
sociate at that time, a vessel that
IL years later Won a second prize in
the 1900 regatta; yet in the ENpos-
ltion Iniverselle the year before,
where it was displayed, it attracted
no attention.
His first actual automobile was
built in 1890, for the Henry brothers
at Montrouge. But not until 1898
did manufacturers become interest
ed in the four-cylinder motor. Forest
!. had successfully put it in an auto
mobile ten years previously. He only
made one car, which worked, and
then he turned to other inventions.
, He started to build a submarine and
presented the first scheme Tor one
with his engine After his engine
had been adopted for the scheme he
worked on the airplane ideas, and
though the Wright brothers We're
the first to fly successfully il is not
until they found light and power
full combustion engine-which For
est had made possible.
IF you want to touch with your
own hands the fruits of Forests in
dustry, simply lift the hood OF the
latest automobile and go over it's
parts one by one" says the Paris
publication: To Wit
THE gaGoline penetrates tho car
buretor by means of Il gauge that
the essence itself maintains at a
constant level. Before the air enters,
it is heated by circulating water that
has cooled the cylinders where the
explosions take place. All this in
eenlous mechanism is Forests work,
the carbureted air penetratcs a tube
that feeds all the cylinders, and this
Forest invented. These cylinders are
all cast from a single block which
IS also Forests invention. The cX-
ploslon is created by a spark gcner-
atod from the magnetic, which is
movable spark plug. the idea too
having been Forests creation, He
then noticed that the exhaust still
retained a tension OF two or three
atnloSpnefes, representing so much
unusd force, SO much lost gasoline
II" thus had the idea of keeping the
valve closed so that one cylinder
began to compress at the same mo-
ment that the other cylinder rcleas-
I'd its exhaust. This happy COM
bination OF delayed explosion and
SynchrOn1ZatlOn IS Forests work.
But the explosion releases an
enormous amount of heat, and the
cylinder left to itself, would quick
ly turn red hot and crack. TO avoid
this Inconvenience, the motors of
motor cycles, balloons and airplants
are surrounded by concentric
flanges, which Forest Invented,
while the cylinders Of automobiles
and boats are cooled by water cir
culating through a brass envelope,
designed by Forest. And last of all,
the selt-starter itself is one OF For
est inventions. In short. there is no
essential part of the latest motor
that does not bear the mark OF For
"st's genius. And at the Exposition
of 1900, 135 Of the 1876 exhibitions
included Forests Inventions"
Before Forest died there was a i
great celebration in his honor On /
Feb. &c, 1911, in the big amphi-
theatre of the Sorbonne, attended .
by scientific notabes and an audi /
ence Of 5000. NJ. Paul Painleye, a
member OF the Academy of Sciences,
shook the inN ntor's hand, and all .
the scholars and big men did the |
came.
One day while walking along the
Champs Elysees a magnificent Pam
hard machine nearly ran into him. /
1T would have been funny" he re- |
marked to a friend, "if that ma
chine had run over me, for | was
the one who brought it into the |
world When told that it was as
tonlshing that none Of the a,li |
bile concerns had ever given him a
machine, he said. Bah The inter- |
esting thing is not the car. but the |
motor"
Last March, in Paris, the press
carried an announcement that a |
bust to Fernand Forest had been /
unveiled The news story was very
brief.