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Show ENGINE WITH ONE CYLINDER Boston Man Claims That It Will Revo-I'utionlze Revo-I'utionlze Industry Takes Weirit Oft of Fly Wheel. After experimenting for ten years, Fred H. Gile of Boston, who has been a clergyman, physician and lawyer la turn, believes that he has invented a unicycle engine which will revolutionize revolution-ize the Industry. "I began experimenting while I wat pastor of a church In Scituate," said Mr. Gile, according to the Boston Traveler. "My boys were running a. bicycle shop there and I became Interested Inter-ested In the mechanism of engines. I have devoted a great deal of my time since then to the subject and now have evolved an engine with only one cylinder, which does the work of the ordinary four cylinder engine. From this engine I get six times as much power as from an ordinary engine of the same size. "By my arrangement I have done away with weight on the fly or balance bal-ance wheel. In the ordinary engine the balance or fly wheel is the heaviest heav-iest part of it, but in mine it Is the lightest part. For Instance, while the flywheel of an ordinary engine of eight horse power weighs between 300 and 600 pounds, mine weighs only 40. This Is because I get a continuous impulse im-pulse and do not need a heavy fly-'heelto fly-'heelto balance the mjjcjin'e. "My jngine is practically noiseless and either keroseTie, alcohol or gaso- . line may be used in It There is also" less vibration t2 it. ' r--r "I consider this engine of mine a wonderful thing for motor boats, as It does away with weight as well as giv ing more power TnT falilall space. No ftre ever comes out of the exhaust, as. the engine uses up the charge entirely. entire-ly. You can't hear any noise frouJ the engine six feet away." |