Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1908-11-16 | Page 4 | Facts About Motorite

FACTS ABOUT Fuel Is Il I Made of High Explosives Metropolitan Magazine Is i a fuel consisting of o a compound of ot seventy parts by b weight of nitroglycerin to thirty parts by b weight of 0 guncotton The guncotton Is dissolved In the ill nt forming a dense tough and an rubbery material This material is made into bars aT out seven een Inches in diameter and six sir Ix feet teet long bong for tor uee In torpedoes th the size Kize of Dr the tilt torpedo For tOI th torpedo the stick will wl I be both bigger and longer The bars are forced into and sealed In steel teel tubes for tor use and these steel tubes containing the mo 1110 are inserted In into the torpedo and andare andare are surrounded by bf a water jacket The can a an be e ignited and can ean burn only at antI and nd from one end and the water to be evaporated is forced along a water Jacket surrounding the tube Into the combustion chamber where It Jt Is evaporated into steam by mingling with the products of combustion of ur the One pound of evaporates it ii v little over oer two pounds of water so SI a that one pound of or l produces the equivalent of or three pounds of or steam for or the products of combustion of or thu th mingle with the steam pro produced produced prod d The steam from roni the combustion chamber Is la conducted to turbines or orI other engines or devices for tor propelling I the torpedo through the water