Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1916 — SMOKELESS STEAM ENGINE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SMOKELESS STEAM ENGINE

Taking the polite, hint shat the electrification of railroad terminals during the past few years has supplied, the steam engine has added a vital Improvement in construction, which will make it smokeless to all intents and purposes. The new apparatus is an inverted smoke-pipe which falls away to the ground instead of opening vertically upward. The pipe carries the gases, soot and cinderp downward to the track, instead of releasing them to float in the air. In order to assure the correct draft a fan drives these furnace exhalations downward, and a vapor arrangement moistens the smoke and cinders so that they are dropped to the ground Immediately, and are not blown about by the rush of the train.—lllustrated World.

AN INVERTED SMOKE-PIPE CARRIES THE GASES, SOOT AND CINDERS DOWNWARD AND BACKWARD.