STEAM SUPERSEDED.

Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 298, 23 February 1878, Page 4

STEAM SUPERSEDED.

The death is announced of Mr William Walhvork, who was engaged maturing an invention which he styled “ a new motive power, to supersede steam,” and which, it is said, he completed about six days before his death look place. It is stated positively that the machine has beau worked by Mr Parr, and fully ■justifies what Mr Walhvork had staged to him i t 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 401b, as tested by a patent steam gauge. Mr Mason (says the Pemllebury Times ) is patenting the invention—which is extremely simple in construction, and is a wonder to those who have witnessed it how it has been kept so many years in abeyance—-at a considerable cost in all countr.es. It will be put to a large engine and tried practically in the place of steam. Having no lire, of course it emits no smoke, works without noise, ami tin; first machine, it is said, will do the work of a 50 horse power engine, yet it lakes up so little room that a light cart and one horse carried it all the way, including the patterns. If all this ui'Mi out t<» be correct wc may look for a in -the engineering and manni’a-.-tn’-ing world ; and Mr Mason, n mneticai man, is sanguine as to the remits. —Public Opinion.