Show According to tIme iron Ago we burn eleven J tons of coal to accomplish results re-sults which In i theory ought to be ae mirod by i one ton hat I 11 l the steam engine wnwtes HO pur cent of tho energy In coal To overcome thli hun been tho study of scientific Inventor for yoarq and of into the oludy has taken the direction of converting the cotU Into gas and then utilizing It In gar engines I as the Age says The gnu engine Rhinvu a remarkable efficiency and In It Is found the promlscD of a future coal I pporiojny which In power of generation should give to one ton of coal the present pres-ent value of two tons burned In evaporating water Some gnu engines I havo been made to product ono horap power to finch Ifl cubic feet of gas con I Kumcdr while the est steam engine wants from 25 to o pounds of coal per indicated horsepower large gas en glnos hayo been made which require but 07U pounds of coal per l horsopower When lhq Invention t Jt q norfociocl which hHH been under consldoratlpn in thl city during the paul suinmcjlife l claim of the Inventor IK that vJth 9ll > jli the fuel he will produoe for lighting 1 or for uowor ten UnuMMlic roKiilt that can be obtained from any gas heretofore made Ho is now building an engine for an automobile to be run by gas which he expects to run for 2 cents an hour and his claim Is that the apace occupied by his fuel will be as compared com-pared with coal only 1V ln3i > that In if a steamship were to burn 350 tons a day tho material he would supply to produce the same power would require Iho spaco only of lOVs tons of coal which in a voyage across the Atlantic In one of the ocean greyhounds would give 2000 tons more apace for freight |