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A New Sun Motion

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Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
March
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Professor E. 11 Stevenson, a well known educator and writer of Quincy, Mass., announces the cornpletion of an invention on which he lias been laboring for years, which, he says, will revolutionize the present methods of obtaining motive pow"?r. Professor Stevenson has pursued his investigations and experiments in Quincy all winter and has at last brought his idea to a head. Professor Stevenson said: "The forces which have tlms far been utihzed by the genius of man are the laws of gravitation and ehemical reaction. In the broad field of research and inrestigation we find the possibilities of the future in molecular attraction, musical vibration and the refraction of light. "To understand the theory on which I :)ave been laboring you must understand the corelation of forces or the transmntation of energies. We use forcé to produce light. It is upon the reverse of this theory that I have labored, and my experiments are at last proving satisfactory. I have found that the heat of an ordinary kitchen stove generates energy Bnfficient, if controlled, to drive the machinery of the Pillsbury milis, and the Sames of a Bunson electric burner would furnish power to light by electricity 1,000 lights." In Professor Stevenson's experimental machine, however, the lieat of the sun alone has been used. This machine consists of three brass cylinders connected by means of tubes and val ves with a glass reflector behind the central cylinder. A piston moving laterally connecting with a balance wheel gives the motion. The sliaft on which the balance wheel hangs passes through the end of the machine and contains a drive pulley, which inakes the force available. This machine is operated by the sun, working with great