STEAM SUPERSEDED.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 41, 2 March 1878, Page 3

STEAM SUPERSEDED.

The death is afjnounced of William Wall work, who was engaged maturing an m volition which he styled "a new motive power, to supersede steam," and which, it is said, he completed about six da} r s before his death took place. It is stated positively that the machine has. been worked by Mr Parr, and fully justifies what Mr Wallwork had stated to him it would do. .Its power, he declared, was unlimited — of course increasing the strength of the material—and at a trial it blew off air at a pressure of 401 b, as tested by a patent steam gauge. Mr Mason (says the Pendlebury ■' Times," is .patenting the invention — which is extremely simple m construction, and it is a wonder to those who have witnessed it how it lias been kept so many years m abeyanoe — at a con^ siderable i cost m all countries. It will be put to a large engine and tried practically m the place of steam. Having no fire, of course it enjits no, smoke, works without noise, and the first machine, it is said, -will do the work of a 50 horse power engine, yet it takes up so little room. that a light carfc and one horse carried it all the way, includ%glthe patterns. If all this turn, 'out to be correct we may look for a reyplution m the engineering and manufacturing world; and Mr Mason, a practical man, is sanguine a.s to. the results. — " Public Opinion/