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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1920.

TO-DAY'S

PICTURES.

PUTTING THE SUN TO WORK

Printing Press, Run by Sun

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Likely That Before Long We Shall Succeed In Harness- ing That Luminary, Com pelling It To Remove From Mankind To a Great Extent the Primal Curse of Labor.

BY ROBERT TIGHE

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ID you ever try to fry as ess on

o asphalt pavemper at mid-day

n the summer time?

It can be done very easily; änd

al is an interesting experiment because

Uz Blustrates in a striking way the lho! Truelty of the sun's heat,

On a sunny day in summer the sola

·luminary delivers upon each here of land

amount of energy equal to)

7.500 borzepower working wontinu»!

ously.

No wonder, then that selence is try bag to dad a means whereby some of this solar energy, Dow going to waste, may be turned to useful account for mechanical and other purposes.

problem is engaging the sten- of thinkers and invectors all over

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Sunshine Coater

Tolar Diane Pumping Water, to

98 Feet Height

the

sun shines, there is a continuous cir- culation of ea ep and around.

A new and rather exciting idea i

¦and vegetables.

For Recerving suring the Energy of Sun Rays

perhaps an enormous, scale.

Giant Reflector Set Up & Dasa Cal for Running & Pumping Plant

not from the sun direct, but from the, was invented by an Englishman named Adams, It was a conical, sight-sided blue sky. The sky itself is a heater.

But, to come back to matters purely wooden box lined with slivered glass practical, we know that desert and having at lis bottom a small cop- regions of Northern Africa irrigating per boiler the latter being provided machinery, for pumping water, is now with a glass cover to retain the raya being operated on a considerable scale concentrated upon it by the mirrors. by sen power. One plant of great in this contrivance any sort of food (size, purchased by the Egyptian Gov-was quickly cooked. Rations for seven ernment and set up in the Nile Valley.men, mcluding meata were prepared replaces 1.500 laborers, working sight in it in two hours. hours a day.

As far back as 1882 a printing press was run by sun power during an em

A huge" re-

Outfits Built In This Country

Such outta are JosIDE.

the

This plant was but in the United Hibition at the Tuileries States: and so likewise were, others. Lector in the shape of a hallow cone The amount of heat obtainable from ceive the sun's rays, and shelves in ordered by the French Government, concentrated the solar rays upon a arlar rays by the use of simple devices side of it are so arranged as always and which has been installed in boller and drove an engine which rar is really astonishing. Would you have to adjust themselves horisontally. On Tunis for running irrigation machine the press and printed a little Dewapa- If all the sun's rays that strike Man- ark The tube contains oil, which up toward the sky.

a cheap sunshine cooker? You need these the pans of bread are placed for ery. They are said to have given ex-pan appropriately called the Sole

A: Pamdenx Cal., in 1900. a rather balan laland on a warm and cloudless expanded and made lighter by the day could be put to work, they would heat, ascends through the tube. The that before long solar heat will be only take a wooden box and cover it baking, or other dishes to be cooked. cellent satisfaction. develop caouch power to rus all the later is continued to form a loop out-used for making artificial ice on a with two sheets-of glass separated by One gathers, then, a notica of the fact admirably adapted for use in rainless

long every day.

scale, was set up at a cost of $5,000. machinery of the world, propel all the side the half-cylinder, making it an!

Concentrated by great an inch of a space. Place it in the that the business of patung the sun regions, where the sun shines all day similar contrivance, on a far larger large scale.

Those son plants may be said to rep-fts mirror-reffector, in the form of a sun, and soon the temperature inside to work is no longer purely a matter Fallroad trains and street cars, and endless arrangement

mirrors, it will serve le evaporate am- and light all the cities on the beat

Descending

through the loop, the of monia, thereby engendering intense of : will rise far above the boiling of theory. It is beginning to take resent

dxle. to harassing

One form em- wheel, doing 336 feet in diameter. globe.

But the sun's heat. forcing cold; and the conversion of the am-point of water. You can cook eggs orisame sort of practical shape-A the furthest advance ba. Sub» ) Kat come; looked like sa imm cools. the off up through the part of the monia into gas will incidentally fur-meat in it, or a palatable stew of beef clently, at all events, to offer reason plays trough-shaped redoctors ar-This was so arranged that it could be

azine for pumping The

of table expectation that what has already ranged in batteries, the solar rays be made to face the sun at all hours. tune inside the bail-cylinder, compesnish power to engine

belar 'concer been accomplished in a small way will Ing

rays of that luminary concentrated by them upon tabereys the cooled oil to follow t. else there stun (when condensed) through the

Here you have a real freien cook. Thetore long be carried out en a larg-shaped boilers that run through the trated upon a boller. The exile d would be a vacuum,

Se a vacuum. Thus while

pipes, for use over and over again. er; which requires no fuel to make it

troughs The banks of redectors are veloped tour horsepower, and. lifted Solar energy is already being turned hot tu start with. But the same meth-

12 Cailfortis many thousands of automatically heeled over toward the 1,400 gallons of water per minuta. It to very practical account in parts of box Africa. Thes, for instance. soldiers Iod, applied to a receptacle with aldwellings are provided with roof boxes

interesting experiment. double

separating, the two jackets) wili for domestic purposes

Another form emplon & cosperies It is undeniable that steady advance seriously by the Smithsonian Instru-oll, as it runs through, warms the oven backs a convenient little apparatus ferun ap the temperature inside to P shallow, glass-covered, bostomed

for drinking. It con-

По the late bead of which. Prot. and does the cookies. With this con- distilling water

"dead" layer of air being the best ori.with sheet copper painted black and 101 Ast metal boxes contafting water is being medo in the direction of sun- concave mirror teething like 1,000

halting engles, produced in the yies ma- trivance Dr. Abbot has baked bread sists of a hotter.

It contains black-painted and covered with two sheets of glass, power willsation Insulated. pipes, and is led with water by a pon which the sunshine is concen Laken only a

With twenty-sia wonderful goal trated by mirrors. chiur the solution of a puzzle seem and roasted meat on the summit of focus the sun's rays. and a coll-of non-conductors.

con- A water-jacket for

water rate Mount Thiney, in California, in the tubing in a wate gly quite di dimouli

The Up-To-Date Sunshine Oven

banks of boxes, covering a total are not distant future we pump: the glass is double. The denser. This machine will boll a quart

The latter idea is merely for scien- is raised nearly to balling-point by of 10.299 square feet, all the rays that and when that time has arrived, El- midst of everlasting spowi

solar energy gantle plants will convert ..More Sun's Heat Far Aloft

of water and keep it boiling. It will

The water

into electricity, which can be trans For years

has distill two cations a day, enough for tinc experiment, of course; but a really the sun. and it will stay hot for forty-fall upon a quarter-scre of surface gaa past Dr. Abbat

wonderful solor aven is made by art-eight hours if the weather happens to are taken up and utilized. that half-a-dozen men.

in the bozes is converted, into steam.mitted over wires tar and wide, fot sa entirely new worked in an obrervatory on

On a clear summer day the san de-ting a rectangular bax on one of its be cloudy.

Science has learned a principle. bakes a loaf of bread. maustain top, three miles above sea

Lad the Eises shout, solar radiation that was not which runs a pump, lining 300 pounds use wherever it is wanted. It is even of water per minute to a height of 13 possible that the continuous sunshine or roast a piece of meat, without fasi, level. He says that his machine will livers ea the earth one kilowatt of edges the upper two of i's fome des

The lower known eren, a few years ago. sun's rays Terrier or the beat

of tropical deserts many furnish power, | feet, wwow more rapidly up there than energy per square yard, or the equiva- being Klaas-covered.

First Steps Toward The Goal heat, and light for the cities of tem- 31 1AA. A half-cylcader San Francisco. because the sun's raysient at the and two-fifths horsepower, double as above described.

The first practeal solar cook-slovejį perate zones with mirror-plass earches are hotter. Much of the sun's energy continuously-that is to say enough two sides are painted black and cor-clear day, at any time in the year, to run and keep ruming twenty-two jered with black felt for insulation. The one-eighth to one-sixth of the total box may be tilted at any angle to re-energy that warms the earth comes rays and concentrates them upon its lost in passing through the almos

40-watt electric lamps. a metal tube that be the half-evinder's phen and one ce's more of it high

Tea

The "loop", passes through a

the world. It has been taken up very tar coas an oven. Hea; from the French Northern Africa, carry on the space of glass (an inch of air that supply at the hot watez required in the morning and toward the was meant for-irrigating purposes. Dut

Dr. C. G. Abbot, Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian, has recently de- vised a "kolar cooker." as he calls it.

#

degrees

Such a box west in the evening

whole Ict

Op d

proved only az

we shall

have as yet steps

Loward Some day in the reach it

Mr. C. B. Cochrane presenting the Gant Cup to Georges Carpentier after the latter's victory over Joe Beckett.

DCINGS OF THE. DUFFS

LADY HAVE YOU ANY OLD CLOTHES You CAN GIVE ME)

·JÚST Á MÍNUTE

AND I'LL SEE.

·Prof Frederick Starr

Professor Starr, University of Chicago, who, on his return from the Orient, declared that there was no anti-American feeling in Japan.

Carl Seitz, the new Presid-

Photo: Underwood,

ent of the Austrian Republic.

You Have to Have Two to Cive One Away-

THE POOR FELLOW, BUT I CANÛT GIVE HIM THIS-IT'S THE ONLY ONE TOM HAS I'LL ASK TOM

IF HE HAS ANYTHING –

"TOM, THERE'S A POOR MAN our KERE AND HE WON'T TAKE MONEY BUT HE WANTS A SUIT OF OLD CLOTHES “WHAT CAN YOU,

DO FOR HOM?

WELL I CAN GIVE ∙HIM THIS SUIT I HAVE ON-

Snow-covered graves of British troops at Chauvoncourt, France,

BY ALLMAN

OH THAT, WOULD. BE FINE TOM! I'm 50. ANXIOUS TO DO SOMEINING FOR THE POOR MAN

́BUT, HE'LL HAVE TO LEAVE THE -SUIT HE TAKES. OFF SO THAT, I'LL HAVE SOMETHING|

TO WEAR-

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