THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1906.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8218, 23 August 1906, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1906.

Arrangements are now being made at Home for testing a new type of engine, which, if it proves successful, will probably cause a greater industrial revolution than s; that wbioh resulted from the disoovery of the steam engine or the application of electricity to motive power. The patentee is Mr Thomas Marsden, of Wigan, Lancashire, a millowner who ie already known as the inventor of several valuable devices. He describes his new pro duotion as a triple eoonomio air engine. If Mr Marsden aan justify his claims, the business of the collier will be practically gone, sc far as industrial requirements are] concerned. There will be no need tb discuss the vexed question of the exhaustion of coal supplies, and it

will not be a matter of importance to the Navy whether Welsh or New Zealand coal is the more valuable for the purposes of the first line of defence. Mr Marsden claims for his nßw engine that it will save tho use uf coal and of all fuel of any sort, and that it will take the plaoe of steam, which will not be required to keep the pressure of air constant. It will drive any locomotive or power engine without using either gas, water, coal, electricity or oil. As an additional advantage, it is stated that the new engine ip quite smokeless. The economic cylinder will be more powerful than auy other make of cylinder of equal diameter. With two or more boilers, filled with compressed air up to the pressure required ia each boiler, the economic pressure will keep up the pressure of air if set to work. The ecouomic method will put more air into the cylinder than it takes out. Mr Marsden informed a London journalist that the now cylinder, when the boilers in conjunction with it were once charged, would work percetually, if required, without a farthing cost of fuel. "Fill the receiving boiler once, with a handpump," he said, "and it will la'st forever, providing there is no leak- ' age." This brings the soientifio world very near to the much discussed perpetual motion, but outside the theoretical value of the Jnew discovery, if, it is at all practicable it will revolutionise the mechanical world.