Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — A New Motor. [ARTICLE]

A New Motor.

The bi-sulphide of carbon is a chemical compound -which lias long been known, is now being utilized for the first time as a substitute for the vapor produced by boiling water. Scientists have always held that steam as a motive was very defective. It seems that in producing this vapor there is an nnnecesssary waste of fuel. Of the hundred atoms &f energy in a definite quantity of coal, only fourteen are utilized in the production of steam. The bi-sulphide of carbon—a fluid, by the way—is far more economical, because it utilizes eighty atoms out of the hundred. This fact tells the story of the enormous value of the new motor. It saves the waste of the energy stored up coal and all the fuels. A steamer crossing the Atlantic, in using this motor, will economize two-thirds of the space formerly needed for the stowage of coal. The proposed new naval vessels, which would be confined to our coasts in case of war, as we Lave no coaling stations in distant seas, will be able, if the bisulphide of carbon replaces steam, to venture beyond our immediate coast. A revolution will also be effected in all the machine shops and manufactories of the country. The bi-sulphide of oarbon has been thoroughly tested, and companies have been organized in the various States of the Union, representing a stock of $80,000,000. This great economy of coal will be a saving of incalculable value to our manufacturers. But are only in the beginning of the wonders which science, when applied to the arts, has in store for us. Many of our readers will live until the beginning of the next century, and the intervening seventeen years will be prolific in inventions to increase man’s controover the forces of nature. —DemoresCs Monthly.