MANY USES FOR ALCOHOL.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 426, 23 June 1904, Page 6

MANY USES FOR ALCOHOL.

•—Wy la Eeuriwirnatfne; Ita Appll•fttlomtwFnrt ami (or Power t *» •■ Pss-s-osee. The kaiser of Germany is eiicblirffg'img every effort toward the use <-.: alcohol for lighting, fuel and |i ..cr purposes, and tinder the stimulus 01 prizes offered to inventors and -■ ; constructors it is being hugely .. .1 ised in various ways. Alconol 1 - k Bomicslly made from a num; m ». products in' Germany, and &.•»•* quently the supply of it is very 1- .:-. At a recent exhibition demon st:.. ■ j. tha nie of alcohol there were »:•<• . :i a number of motors, farming irr nsests sad similar things piopfi.gil by an alcohol flame. There w •. c also lamps which displayed great e:';iciency s In a report recently mads to Washington, Consul-General llu-n 1 -** ther writes from Frankfort that the ehlef of "tha fire department of Hanover »m recently invented an alcohol • firing apparatus, used in conncc>;-.;n wits) an automobile fire engine, which i* said to be very satisfactory la praotioe. ■ The engine is driven to the -seeaie of the fire by an alcohql motor, and while on tha way the . sVeaaa is gotten up by tha new invenKos. a«t*d abovafso that the engine Tfl tuoMj for operation immediately •a fsa arrival on thO ground. OrdiasrJry H is necessary to keep the on* ft»« constantly fired In order that flralmSm supply may bo immediately areJlable. .' Otherwise' muoh time la tost in getting up steam.