NEW MOTIVE POWER,

Dunstan Times, Issue 688, 25 June 1875, Page 3

NEW MOTIVE POWER,

An American contomparary says :—“ At this moment a new mbtivepower is exciting the liveliest interest in America, anti all the more because nothing is yet known beyond the simple assertion of the inventor, that with two gallons' of water he can generate sufficient force to drive a train from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and hack again from the Pacific to the Atlantic— a gallon of water to cross the continent at the widest part! The exclamation follows naturally, ‘ Absurd !’-—yet some of the shrewdest business men in the United states have advanced money on the invention, which is said to have filled them with wonder. John W. Koeley claims to have discovered the means, it is presumed (for the secret is jealously guarded) by the rapid decomposition of water into its constituent gases, by which a power is developed sufficient to direct a pressure of 7001bs on the square i ich. Per steam 2001bs to the square inch is considered a high pressure, hence the power Mr Koeley can exert is sufficient te blow to pieces any created boiler, or knock anything to shivers. Ho denies that ho uses fuel or chemicals of any kind, or electricity or magnetic currents, while he asserts that out of the smallest hulk ho can produce a power hitherto' unexerted in mechanics. In Philadelphia it is boiug got into train for practical operation, and wo will soon have the results unfolded. Until then the world will be sceptical.”