. Electrical news and engineering . of matter, and directly manufacttire lightwithout their interxention. To do this we must be ableto produce oscillations at the rate of 400,000,000,000per second. Tesla has produced them in thousands andmillions per second, and Oookes has shown how, bymeans of high vacua, to raise many bodies to brilliantfluorescence at a small expense of energy. . Theseare hints toward a solution of the problem, but give nosolution as yet. Prof. Langley states that the Cubanfirefly spends the whole of its energy upon the visualrays without wasting any upon heat, and is some
. Electrical news and engineering . of matter, and directly manufacttire lightwithout their interxention. To do this we must be ableto produce oscillations at the rate of 400,000,000,000per second. Tesla has produced them in thousands andmillions per second, and Oookes has shown how, bymeans of high vacua, to raise many bodies to brilliantfluorescence at a small expense of energy. . Theseare hints toward a solution of the problem, but give nosolution as yet. Prof. Langley states that the Cubanfirefly spends the whole of its energy upon the visualrays without wasting any upon heat, and is some fourhundred times more eflficient as a light producer thanthe electric arc, and even ten times more enicient thanthe sun in this respect. Thus, while at present we ha\eno solution of these important problems, we ha\e reasonto hope that in the not distant future one may be ob-tained, and the human inventor may not be put toshame bv his humble insect rival. 196 CAMflDiAN ELECTf^lCAL NEWS Sfplenibe ELEGTf^lC RflrlLW/VY DEPftRTM^ CANADIAN Vol. VI. Electrical Neavs STEAM ENGINEERING JOURNAL. OCTOBER, 1896 No. ID. THE HORNSBY-AKROYD OIL ENGINE. The Xorthey Manufacturing- Company, Ltd., well-known throughout the Dominion as builders of highclass pumping machinery, have lately entered upon themanufacture of a most decided novelty in Canada, inthe shape of the Hornsby-Akroyd oil engine. This en-gine, as will be seen from the accompanying cut, is avery compact and simple machine, and one which willprove most useful in a great many situations in which 4th. The expulsion of the spent gases by the piston. In starting the oil engine, the small lamp, fed by thesame oil as is used in the angine, is lighted and placedunder the vaporiser, which is the part immediately be-hind the cylinder proper. In about ten minutes thevaporiser is hot and the engine ready to start. Thefly-wheel is turned by hand a couple of revolutions, todraw air into the cylinder, and the engine then worksautomatically,
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