Show 4 a THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE I SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 3 1937 “Gas”! Without Motoring New Amazing Experiments Show How You May Run a Car on Farm Products Wood Extracts and Even “Exploded” Water The Automobile Engine Used In the Dicy Teste at London Showing the Secondary Ontario day possibly in the very near while out motoring you may hash a quick glance at the dash board and observe that the fuel tank indicator is almost down to the zero mark It is high time to fill up the tank And this is what may happen: Instead of stopping at the first avail able gasoline station you will head for the nearest town pump or public water fountain or spring or even a brooks any place where you can get a few gallons of nice clear water to pour into the fuel tank And then you simply drive on Or in case you should happen to run short of "gas” While motoring through Death Valley or any other arid district where water is scarce you might stop at a wayside furnace where fuel gas is compressed from burned wood and sold in cylinders to mo- Combustion Chamber on the "Head” Where Water WaS Broken Up Into Hydrogen and Oxygen Under a High Pressure and Temperature The Hydrogen According to Inventor Dicy Is Exploded Creating Power to Operate the Motor The Large Tank Contains the Water “FueL” SOME motor car fuel that can be produced at low plosion for repeating cycles” In And if neither water is availnor wood-ga- s able there are possibilities of obtaining synthetic gasoline and synthetic oil now being produced through the subjection of coal to hydrogenation otherwise or high pressure: a chemical com- 65 a Berlin process has developed whereby wood is burned in a special furnace new been UNITED STATES torists cost It may be interesting also to note that and thus the gases produced are collected compressed and Inventor Fred Dicy Is Pouring Water into the Fuel Tank of the Dismounted Automobile Engine Previous to Starting the Motor While His Partner Phil Martin Plays an Acetylene Torch on the Flowing Water Just to Prove That It Isn’t Gasoline tored cial ’ like in spe- containers' compressed air cylinders storedis The wood-ga- s "By this time the water has been Injected intaa-high-pressu- re cylinder from a supply tank and automatically a regulates through bination of gases obpressure In The United States Produces 65 the turn this is divided tained by plymenzation All the World’s in much the same otherwise extraction Per Cent of Oil manner as spark from raw fuels All of these possible plugs are controlled In the ordinary gasoline engine The motor fuels of the future water wood amount of power necessary is conand synthetic gas compressed coal-o- il will provide it is claimed motive entrolled by a needle valve ergy A or the family automobile when “The water enters the secondary and if ever the supply of gasoline becombustion chamber when the piston comes exhausted or the price reaches has traveled about seventy per cent of prohibitive heights compression stroke when a check Fred Dicy of 623 Emery Street the valve closes the chamber The remainLondon Ontario claims the invention ing thirty per cent of the stroke is of a conversion unit for the automoin delivering the blow from utilized bile engine whereby water is substithe secondary piston The force of the tuted for gasoline as fuel He declares blow delivered by the hot secondary that several weeks ago during a test piston converts' the water which has run he operated a motor engine for been injected into the chamber into its four hours on a fuel supply consisting two elements hydrogen and oxygen water only of These explode instantly and drive the as "In order to substitute watef fJiston downward until a position is fuel” said Mr Dicy ”1 have found reached where the exhaust valve opens that by operating the unit on gasoline and releases the gases for approximately twenty minutes suf"While the piston is making the ficient heat has been developed internally so that the new fuel can be combustion stroke the secondary pisturned on An automatic valve shuts ton is absorbing the heat from the off the gasoline and opens up the water exploding hydrogen thus producing the heat necessary to create the ex- supply by-pa- ss then sale E A Dobbs Left of Miami Florida and Leslie C Miller of a ach-me- -- nt gas high-gra- That Gene- rates Dry Gas from Gasoline The Inven tors isfactory fuel At Miami Florida E At Claim There Is More Complete Combustion from Dry Gas Than from Liquid It Is this wood can be produced at less cost than gasoline also that it makes a sat- Iowa Inspecting the Ai- Att for motor-- 1 claimed that Des Moines rplane ready to t s Dobbs of that city and Leslie C M 1 ller of Gasoline Des Moines when the German airplane “Ju-86- ” landed at Kabul the capital of Afghanistan recently on its return flight from the Orient its pilot Captain Speck voir Sternburg found to his consternation that not a drop of gasoline was to be had for replenishing his almost empty fuel tanks There was nothing on hand but ordinary petroleum such as Is used In lamps The crew filled the tanks with the lamp oil and had no trouble non-sto- p making a flight to Jask on the Persian Gulf with the hitherto untried fuel Dr Leo M Christensen and Dr Harry Miller of Atchlnson Kansas two chemists familiar with farm problems predict that within ten years power alcohol will become an economic force in American agriculture During the past three months they have been producing on a research basis an anhydrous (water free) alcohol made raw from a variety of farm-grow-n materials Laboratory experiments over several years have convinced them that anhydrous alcohol can be blended up to 20 per cent with gasoline and used as s fuel for high compression combustion engines It Is being sold today from service stations In Nebraska Kansas South Dakota and Iowa The price is the same as for regular gasoline 1500-kilomet- er Iowa have succeeded in developing a dry gas from gasoline Mr Dobbs invented the generating device Mr Miller was his developing engineer The Inventors claim that there is more complete combustion from dry gas than from liquid- - gasoline The new dry gas was tested in an airplane motor during a recent flight over Miami and the results were said to have been up to expectations And now we hear from Prof Florus R Baxter chairman of the American Chemical Society speak I zx g f r am Rochester N Y where he was making arrangements for the Society’s recent annual convention: “The chemical combination of gases formerly burned under stills as raw fuel yields high-octagasoline” said he “The recent seven and record-breaking hour air flight from California to New York was made by use of this fuel "As soon as large-scal- e production is started the cost to the consumer will be at or below the present gasoline pricer level More than 200000000 barrels of synthetic gasoline and synthetic oil will be available annually 'IITISS ELMINA HUMPHREYS of selling below current natural product England wearing Southampton prices’ g the costume in which ' Prof Baxter is of the opinion that she posed as- the “Spirit of Radio” the hydrogenation of coal may also during the recent Southampton elecsolve the problem of providing a good trical exhibition The Spirit of Radio one-ha- lf Here’s a Landing Ramp for Seaplanes iso-octa- A Berlin Germany Factory Where Wood Is Burned to Froduce Wood-Ga- s Fuel -- Brize-winnin- MILESTONES OE SCIENCE Crucial Age— For the formation of drinking habits is between 18 and 21 for men and between 22 and 25 for women Dr Paul Studenski New York 'THE University determined But hps survey showed no marked differences between y ITQ M A HIANNO of Mamaroneck New York has just invented aramp to ’ enable seaplanes to rise from the water to a pier which may be possibly eight or ten feet above water level The lower part of the ramp is hinged and can be raised or lowered by hydraulic power A small working model of the ramp is shown herewith Concrete Shade “Tagging” HAROLD C UREY of Columbia PROFESSOR University New York City winner pf the Nobel prize in 1934 for chemistry is shown (left) at work on his mass spectrometer with which he has suoceeded in separating the heavy lsotype of for- - the first nitrogen time in quantities sufficient to provide a new “tagged” atom for investigations of physiological processes and other scientific enig- - ma Isotypes are elements having the - same atomic - numbers hls-- eo- - Dr John R Huffman E G Ttaode and “Marvin Fox hlive devel- oped a chemical method of a by which — --gram of ’’heavy'1- - nitrogen can be produced every 24 hours two-tent- hs abstainers A Prize-- W THIRTY J- per cent of U S Men Have or More of Their Hair — A survey— of baklness by P A Thomas showed Highest ratio of alopecia (baldness) was found in Atlanta Ga lowest in Philadelphia Seventy-eigh- t men are bald to every one woman who loses her hair - Lost inning Schoolroom 25 ALPH A RINHSEIS of San Fran- cisco has been granted a patent for a keyhole funnel As its name suggests it is a front door keyhole with a funndl-shape- d mouthpiece to serve as a guide for those seeking the keyhole on a dark night ) JOHN F MORROW of South-bridg- e DR Mass predicts the eventual adoption of compulsory eye testa for all children’ beginning at the age of twp years ‘followed by simitar tests each year thereafter He declares that 40 per cent of the entire population of the United States has uncorrected visual impairments 75 per cent of the population need eyeglasses for corrective purposes and only 28 per Cent are wearing them RIDDLE of the CarDR OSCAR jshingto& D negie Institution! G ha announced that as a result of a series of recent experiments hormones frojn ’the pituitary gland may be used the Atom rey-a- nd the percentage of women drinkers and men topers with only 13 per cent of those reached calling themsplves total an exacting problem In every school building Lewis If Carris managing director of the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness says that defective eyesight ia handicapping approximately “three million school children in the United States today Farsightedness is the most common visual defect among American school children Mr Carris said Astigmatism is next and is third Improper lightingof schoolrooms Is blamed !V ATURAL Illumination is 1 ss The photograph- - above shows a schoolroom In the new grade school at North-velo- p In- ?1Ue'M!ch: The buildinghasbeenawardedfirstprize in a nationalcompeUUoa backward retmngindividijals — treatment ls — example ofideal illumination for schools The window declared to have solved the problem of proper lighting effects- The building was THE latest provision for the comfort t0 geniuses"5 New THOMAS L CUNMNGHAM of constructed with an allotment of $42954 from the PWA Bombay’s traffic police is this inveilt-etla water —The National Society for tbe Prevention of Blindness is seeking to focus atten concrete sunshadettrprotect the- - mfcn — - York Gityf-has- — tioii on the need for regular eye examinations for'schyl children because of the on duty from the' btirning rays of the proof match for the convenience of swimmers and hunters serious results of neglect of vision defects sun - ' |