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Show Try Atom Power In Locomotive Engineer Says Formula Uses Mercury and Steel To Supp'y Energy. bku.evi: ' " A j York Cer.tr..: ' 'ui 1 :'':Vt j Will rpll U. : . . . Ur.- :a v m. Kl , .?itj work v. . : ; ' ;! " ! atomic pov .:-.!:-. s...vn t:.. A ;-socialed ;-socialed Pi. Ralph Liu 1 ' ' f en. au'er fi-r the United S! '' i a. i; . sir i( ur.d development de-velopment i.-nnvt.M:;. , Klinira, N. Y., said the locur'ui.'. e would be fitted with a mercurv turbine employing a formula fur disintegration of mercury mer-cury and steel atoms. He said "One teaeupful of the mercury atoms, exploded, would run a locomotive, pulling 120 freight cars, for 45 round trips between New York and San Francisco." Formula Patented. Lucas said th locomotive would be run onto a siding of the Belleville Belle-ville plant of the concern and that he would build his workshop around it. He obtained a patent on the formula for-mula in 193!, he sa'd, t0 manufacture manufac-ture electronic power by fusing steel and mercury thmugh intense heat created by electronic disintegration of the mercury and steel atoms: Lucas said the formula produced a controllable disintegration of the atom. The turbitir. Lucas said, works this way: , . "It has a 300 twsopower gasoline driven engine, eotierating 220 volts alternating daunt, which k increased in-creased to 1,44(1 volt direet current by transformer coils. This, in turn. creates an ekctrun disc'iarge between be-tween two electrodes in an eight inch thick steel casting which will withstand with-stand 500,000 pounds of pressure per square inch, although it will use only 350,000 pounds. Generates Great Power. "The horsepower generated from that atomic pressure will be 350 times greater than that created in the ordinary locomotive." Lueas estimated that a 300 horsepower horse-power engine, working with a heavy freight load, would use up an average aver-age five gallons of gasoline per hour. Lucas said he believed the turbine would be ready for installation In bout four months and that experiments experi-ments with the locomotive would last for six months to a year. Lucas, now a resident of Newark, is a native of Elmira. He was graduated grad-uated from Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, Troy, N. Y., has worked as I research and engineering specialist with the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car company, the Watervliet, N. Y., arsenal, ar-senal, and the Curtiss-Wright cor-ppratign cor-ppratign at Buffalo, N. Y. |