Year: 1878

The New York World gives the follow
ing description of famous machine
whose operation is calculated TO create
motive power. 1t was an apparently
simple continuance. On one of the plat
forms stood an ordinary hydraulic engine,
to which two pipes were attached, one,
three-eights lap, furnishing water from
the street at a pressure Of thirty-tiye
pounds, and the second an exhsust-pipe,
through which the water was carried to
drum after it had passed through the
engine. The action of the water pro-
PEELED piston through ten-inch cyl
inder, and this piston was connected with
four-inch cylinder in which the motor
was generated. The ten-inch cylinder
merely supplied the power by the COM
Siaou hydraulic process for the action of
The piston in the generator A steam
process that would furnish the same pow
er would be of equal value for the pur-
pose, since it has nothing to do with the
generation of the motor save to work the
piston in the generator. The second CYL
inder, which does the work is supplied by
a branch pipe connecting near the floor
with the main one that supplies the
engine. The second cylinder is air-tight.
At each stroke Of the piston the water
leading from this branch pipe pours into
the vacuum and is forced through Sc
ries Of valves in the piston. By the
time that the piston returns to admit
fresh supply of water all of the former
supply has disappeared through a set of
valves in the upper part of the cylinder
in tba Of ,on
itsolf. Its course from the upper part of
the cylinder lies through a pipe run
along the ceiling to steel tank in one
corner Of the room. This tank is capa-
BILE OF withstanding pressure of one
thousand pounds to square inch.


Mr.. Winters said recently, as he turn
ed the water into the cylinder, that he
had been suspected of using chemically
preared mixture in the generation of the
gas. 10 shoW thai such Yas nos lhe
case, he drew off portion of the water in
the generator into tumbler and passed
it around to be tasted. AS the piston be-
gan to work, gauge upon the wall indi-
Gated the pressure up to three hundred
pounds. Then he turned tie stop cock
in the steel tank, and the gas came his
sing out, having neither heat, odor nor
color. AfterWard he connected a spipe
leading from the tank with an ordinary
Baxter upright engine, which he ran at
pleasure. He then let the gas run
through several tanks containing coal
tar. After this process the gas was light
ed from an ordinary burner, aud dark
blue body Of flame resulted.


"The simplicity Of this process makes
it mysterious" Dir. Winters said, after
exhibiting the machine and showing the
uses to which the gas could be put.
when We say that nothing enters the
generator but water. and that il is con-
verted into this gas, which does not con-
dense and is without moisture, people
laugh at us. Yet such is the fact. There
are eighteen valves in the piston in the
above the pistu,,. - 0tlIsIs tlHl,t H. tie sUace
ment of valves consumes the water ana
generates the gas. | have theory as to
how it is done, but l am not yet disposed
to reveal it. We claim that it is superior
to compressed air because there is no
heat produced in generating it. and it
will not freeze while eXhausting it. We
packed ice around coil of pipe filed
with it, but it was not at all affected. We
also claim that it could be forced through
fifty miles of pipe with scarcely enough
friction to be noticed on a gauge, and that
it can be introduced into manufaC tories
at half the expense of steam. The largest
expense is for the water, of which g largo
quantity is required. 1t can be utilized
under y pressure varying from three
p0uLds-equivalent to fall of six feet
upward to limit not yet determined.