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Show THE HOLLAND PROCESS. The publication of the tests of this process for fuel for locomotives has brought such a number of inquiries from domestic and foreign sources concerning this company and the use of this fuel in lieu of wood or coal for all purposes, that we think a general ?? will be interesting. Briefly, the Holland hydrogen process is a substitute for all other fuel. It is a process whereby perfect combustion is obtained at a tithe of the cost by any other known method of using ?? to material, and with hitherto incomparable ease, simplicity and safety, whether for the cooking or heating stove, making a light (i. e., gas) or making steam. This process, by a simple and inexpensive retort, makes a pure hydrogen flame. This flame is made from naphtha and steam by disengaging the oxygen of steam in the presence of the carbon of naphtha. The proportion of the steam used (which is generated in the retort by burning the naphtha) and the naphtha is regulated by faucets a child can manage, and the flame or heat produced is managed with the same simplicity, being turned on or off as gas, and with greater safety than starting a fire in the ordinary way. The combustion being perfect, is simply a waste heat without smoke or cinders. The detailed reports of actual working tests in a locomotive on the Long Island Railroad, expert examinations by leading chemists, engineers and scientists, and of other tests published in the New York Tribune, Herald, ??, Science, Chicago Tribune, etc., show that the heating or evaporating power of fuel by this process is above ten times greater than that obtained by us of coal, at same cost, or that the same service can be rendered by this fuel at less than one-tenth the coast of coal. In point of cost of appliances coal or wood has no appreciable advantages over use of the Holland process. In point of ?? of furnace material, i. e., burning out of grates, boilers, etc., the advantage in using this process over any other known fuel is beyond comprehension, as the loss or wear by the process is inappreciable. As the process makes neither ash, smell, smoke nor cinder, starts by simple ignition of a match, and is as easy of management as to extinguishing or regulating volume as common lighting gas is, the saving in use, outside of cost of material and equipment, is enormous. ?? |