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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 12, 28 June 1864, Page 3

! -- -.r ;.- .. '.. "" '• 8 O T New ' Motive Power. — Professors Barsanti and.Matteuccij. of Florence,; 'have Invented: a new mode of producing motive; power. : Their ehginc/ may be' described as ah— atmospheric engine, a vacuum being- prpduce'df'in the] cylinders, under the pistons, by the" explosion of a mixture of atmospheric \ air with an inflammable, gajf^OThe bxplosioiris said to "be ..without noise and free from 4anger:r rThe-. -result of^aylong; 'series; of $xperim'ohts' upon 'two machincs^-oiie/pf them being of twenty horse-power *'ahd r 'the Mother of four — proves- that- -the- consumption~of ;"the gas ~umU"iS~. pn^-tJiirdQQC a <jubiel me.tafe por/liorserpowerf pei^hour! The gas is said,to I bo>produced at a cost of less than a penny tli<3 ''dußic/hietre ; consequently, a horse-power can bo obtahied; at about-pne-'third of a penny' 'tlie hour. ° The m^cl'iitfeV^cbhsti'uctod are reported to work satisfactorily^ and the principle:. • to^fre* oquTa&y/'^^ . Encflodohibtixeengines*/* Several - patehta^liave *h~" this couhtry for'- mabliuics -of* tlus ! cia^.'Jl^h»^:j ho'weveivt all 1 'explosive ' engines ; Kav6-failed } f o]Ttun|', the promises of th6jnv.entorß.-~..;l^A(W^^