Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 213, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1917 — Will Conserve Gasoline. [ARTICLE]
Will Conserve Gasoline.
Whether John D. Rockefeller likes It or not. Rev. Dr. Thomas Gljnn of Beaver Falls, Pa., has heeded the call of the government to conserve gasoline by inventing a gasoline engine that will reduce the cost of ocean joy riding just one-half. Doctor Glynn calls his new invention a hydrobuoyant engine. He makes “old man Gravity” perform most of the work. The main power of the engine is received from the buoyancy and gravity of water. The buoyancy engines are assisted and speeded by gasoline motors on the same principle as the well-drilling machines receive their auxiliary motion from gas engines. Doctor Glynn claims that his engine will the economic efficiency In fuel. By the use of fly wheels, high and low gears and dutches it will be possible to propel the largest ocean liner across the big pond with 150 gallons of gasoline.
