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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY. MAY 20. 1011.

26. ft- WW win i 1 i rftfe? 1 'J 7 1 i I I tat itix smarts a. i'Ks .6 MORISOX SUSPENSION FURNACES. WELDED BUOY. THE CONTINENTAL IRON WORKS sf' partment for marking the channels in harbors, and for indicating the location of obstructions to navigation.

In recent years the demand for pipe of large size for conveying water at considerable pressure has opened a wide field for welded pipe, as its smooth interior surface reduces the friction of the water passing through it, rendering the pipe more efficient, and, at the same time, avoiding all leakage. The Continental Iron Works has made large quantities of pipe of this character, some of it being nearly five feet in diameter, for use in connection with hydro-electric installations in Mexico and in Alaska. Because of the freedom from leakage and also the reduction of weight, secured by the adoption of welded joints, they have been employed in the construction of tanks and vessels of various description for use In chemical operations, for receivers for holding gase3 under high pressure, for the steam and water drums of torpedo boat boilers, and for almost innumerable purposes where absolute tightness is required. The Illustrations accompanying this article give an idea of the magnitude of this establishment, and also show some of its various products, and are an evidence of the wide range of heavy steel articles of intricate character which can be and are MADE IN BROOKLYN. Upon the decline of shipbuilding in and about New York City, The Continental Iron W'orks turned its attention to the construction of gas holders and gas producing plants for city illumination, and constructed many of.

the gas works in New York City and Brooklyn, and also in several of the largest cities of the Eastern States, including Boston, Providence, Worcester and many of the smaller towns. In recent years the attention of The Continental Iron Works has been devoted to the more advanced lines of engineering activity, having directed its energies largely toward developing the process of producing steel structures with welded instead of riveted joints, which has rendered possible the production of the well-known corrugated furnace, used in marine boilers, and also in boilers for land purposes. This Company is largely engaged in this particular line of work, having facilities for its production which are unsurpassed. This method of construction is employed by this Company in the pro-, duction of digesters for making wood pulp, used in the manufacture of paper, some of which weigh from twenty to twenty-five tons, and are constructed without the use of any rivets whatever. The' same methods are used in the construction of gas lighted buoys, employed by the U.

S. Lighthouse De This Company, located on the East River front In the Greenpolnt section of the Borough of Brooklyn, is one of the largest and oldest iron working concerns in this vicinity, having been established in 1859 and incorporated in 1887. It was originally engaged principally in the construction of wooden vessels, including many of the noted side-wheel passenger steamers which plied upon Long Island Sound. Its activities were not entirely confined to wooden vessels, as several vessels of iron were constructed here, as well as various other iron structures, notably the first wrought iron pipe across High Bridge, over the Harlem River, for conveying Croton water to New York City. Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War a contract was entered into for the construction of the hull of the original Ericsson Monitor.

This work was so vigorously prosecuted that the vessel was launched in one hundred days after the contract was signed, which enabled her tctgbe fitted out at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and reach Hampton Roads in time to meet the Confederate vessel Morri-mac and defeat her in that celebrated conflict. Upon the successful outcome of this battle, the Navy Department authorized 'the construction of considerable number of vessels of the Monitor type, six or eight of wnicli were constructed at these works. A sssf-5 y5i WELDED STEEL CONE. WELDED STEEL ill 4 'mm WELDED STEEL DIGESTERS. MONITOR AND MERRIMAC ENGAGEMENT.

JIORISON SUSPENSION FURNACES. METAL PRODUCTS CONTINUED. Uncle Sam Gets War Torpedoes From South Brooklyn Plant MM p-ai-; 'Vi Street, i irf fin zuiyh i i EisHuii i WATER DRUMS. Int. surface, ami perform the deadly piece of work for which It was -created.

Should it strike against a piece of debris or roll anil tumble in the billows. It will set Itself to Its course again with unerring accuracy and spr-ed on. And when It has reached its destination, then, and not until then, will It discharge the mass of gun cotton explosive of 2H0 pounds In weight, against the underwater side of an enemy's ship, with the main chance lln.t in the terrific explosion following the Impact, the ship, with all aboard, will bo sunk to the bottom of the sea. While It Is Impossible to explain In detail the many influences, produced In delicate and unerring mechanism, that are at work within the shell of steel which give to the torpedo on automatic action and motive almost reasoning in appearance, a brief description of the mechanism of the torpedo, aided by the Imagination of the reader must suffice to give an idea of the marvelous devices employed to produce this result. The Torpedo a Curious and Ingenious Device.

The torpedo as has been noted. Is In size about It! feel long. IS to 21 inches In diameter, an 1 weighs complete 2,000 pounds. It has the shape of a long per-fecto cigar, its ends tapering to a point, li ij made of hard, tough, specially prepared steel. The interior of its shell is divided Into four i ompnrtments known as the head, air flask, after body and tall.

It has two heads, one for practice and the other for war purposes. The air flask is a nickel steel cylinder, 7-16 of an Inch thick, tvlth a heading at eaoh end, one of which Is removable to permit cleaning out tbe flask. The flask has a main air chamber in the center and a buoyancy chamber at each end. Compressed air in the main compartment propels the engine, a draining device in the forward chamber removes any water created by the condensed air, and the after chamber contains the diving gear, and an alcohol bottle which supplies fuel for heating the compressed air. The main compartment is occupied also by a startln? valve ami a charging valve.

Automatic Action Explained. As the torpedo leaves the launching lube, the tripping of a small latch at the 'lop of the torped.i operates the starting valve, whhh results In ignltirg the super-; beating apparatus, letting in the eom-I pressed air to operate the turbine pro-; polling engine. The compressed air is superheated in order to increase its pow-I er and also the torpedo's range and speed. The extreme range of the projectile is i abfttit two miles and its top sffeed 28 I knots an hour. By means of the ingen-I ious charging valve the firing hammer of I he.

torpedo's nose is set in position to explode the nn thus to touch off the main charge of 2e0 pounds of gun cotton, i Th-1 hammer is separated from the cap when the t-irp" lo is launched, so that 11 the torpedo strikes an object at closer range than ib-sired there will no explosion. The projectile becomes destructive only after the hammer is screw-down into place by a little engine set by the launching officer. Tlie propelling engine nf the torpedo has two turbine wheels revolving in opposite directions, driving two fotir-bladed propellers. This arrangement prevents the torpedo from rolling in the water and keeps it steady. XitU engine weighs but 43 pounds and it 1 cVcsble of developing 125 horse power.

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It consists of a pendulum device controiiini; lateral and lioiizontal rudders. Whenever the torpedo slants downward the pendulum sw.ngs out of place and pets the rudders in position to restore the torpedo to its right level. More wonderful still Is the contrivance which automatically steers the torpedo upon a set course and cor- recta in itstlt any deviation. Tills is tlie I For Out Machine Blacksmiths Self-Locking Drawer Locks. Locks for Vaults, Safety Deposit, and Inside Safe Boxes, Maker, of the First Flat Key Draw Lock.

LT EL A Brooklyn product upon which the world looks uskiince with lVur mid trembling Is the famous Bliss Lea fit au.o-mobile torpedo which is turned out of the K. W. Bliss Company's works at the foo: of Fifty-third street at r. rate of one a This torpedo is perhaps the most subtle and dangerous instrument of war that has ever been devistd. All the torpedoes of the I'nite-i Slates warships and eoast fortifications, now running Into thousands in numbers, command respect, if they are not creating terror, in all the waters of the world.

Important and wonderful as this torpedo Is which later be shown It is but a fraction of the products of tn 3 E. V. Bliss Company's works. The ehi( business of this concern is the manufacture of machinery for working Flieet iron, steel, tin. zinc, brass, copper, aluminum, into commercial articles of every description.

The wide range of work which this line of machinery covers may be best comprehended from the statcni' iit, that the smaller ma "tiines are used for manufacturing articles as small as tile second hand on your wati.h, and the larger machines for articles as as slei 1 harrels. The company at the present time has under course of construction a large press for manufacturing seamless steel barrels, which, vhel complced, will weiglt over half a million pounds. Machinery for tile tnan-urneture of the heaviesi. sheet metal parts used in automobile construction is niso a product of this company, they having supplied by far the major portion ef this of machinery now us'-d by i.uc largest automobile and automobile pHrtJ manufacturers in this country. another product is a complete line v' heavy machinery lor drop forging plar.ts.

The company's machine manufacturing shops are located at the foot of Adams street, on the Kusl Kner frontage, where they occupy tin area of ground equal to two and a quarter city blocks. Some of its specialties are drop-hammers, trimming 1 esses, automobile parts, machinery, and many varieties of power presses for stamping, cutting and forming sheet metal, plate shears for rolling mills, and flanging ma' hines. foot and power squeezers, automatic s' tnv etc. Automatic War Engines. The most famous product of the E.

W. Kllhg Company's works, namely Hie Hliss- Leavitt automobile is pi reaps the most ingenious contrivance ot is made In grandsire were his sepulchral or so and see steel material that Brooklyn. If some i to step forth from slumbers of a century this wonderful device at work it is not at all imnnbable that he would be bill ing to lake oath that it was a thing of Tie. As it is, with the wonders of twentieth century inventions all before us In scientific data, it requires a considerable jmaginat ion to fully appreciate the many-hided wonders of tiiis multiplex invention. A dog can be trained to swim out into the water and bring back a stick of wood thrown there.

But an inanimate piece of hollow steel weighing a ton and about sixteen feet long and from 18 to 21 inchrs In diameter! It is almost incomprehensible, yet true; at bast to the ex-4 nt that this ton of fine, hardened stool will go alone, where it is directed to go, through the water about four feet under J. C. McCARTY Agents, 21 Murray New York 1 Automobile Forg ings Dies and Steel Forging WILLIAM J. MILLS BRASS Inc. MAN'fFACTLREH CF Architectural Brass and Bronze Work Bank and Office Railings VAULT DOORd 639 to 641 KENT AVE.

BRASS FOUNDRY, Telephone Connection. BROOKLYN, SEW YORK. irerrn With Flat and Round Keys on the firing boat by means of com-presBed air. Its Initial velocity Is slightly In excess of the regulation speed of the torpedo when under its own propul- BEATING OUT OF COPPER A 300-BARREL BOILER Human ingenuity has devised many marvelous labor-saving machines, and Is likely in the future to outdo its present achievements In this line, but it is probable that until the end of time there will be articles that will best be made by hand. Vessels of copper, for Instance, as it now appears, must always be fashioned by the slow and tedious process ot hammering, which has been in vogue throughout historic time, for copper is so soft that if it were cast into tanks or boilers It could not be given consistency for permanent form and durability.

The old rhyme: A a wife and a chestnut tree Tlit more thy are braten the better they be' might well have Included copper la Us list, for proper beating Improves the red metal to a great degree, making it stronger by compressfng its molecules and creating for it a mirror-like luster. There are a number of places In Brooklyn where the development of sheet copper Into receptacles for liquids by means of mallet and hammer is a daily event. The sheet of copper Is first spread out on a rude, tub-like, form, and men plying wooden mallets pound It Into conformance with the early stages of the desired design. Then the copper is suspired, by different tackla, according to the size of the thing, and -the process is continued with iron hammers. Naturally only skilled artisans are assigned to such labor, and they must work at times as carefully and accurately as a sculptor with his chisel.

It takes much time to beat out an ordinary sized boiler and the patience of a Job Is well-nigh exhausted before the completion of a mammoth boiler. A firm on Scholes street lately furnished to a brewery in Delaware a copper boiler with a capacity of 3'iu barrels. It weighed three tons and ten men worked on two months. The value of such a' large 'copper pot approaches $5,000. gyroscope, which apparently defies all laws of gravitation.

It consists of a wheel revolving at a terrific speed some- what on the theory u't a boy's top. and whhh always tends to maintain the original axis at which it is started. When, therefore, the torpedo is deflected lo the right or left of its course the gyroscope forces it back into its original direction. The afterbody compartment of the torpedo contains the turbine engine In addition to the gyroscope. The tnll of this curious craft, like that of a fish, Is designed for propulsion.

Two screw pro-ptllors project from the tail and four largo fins are also attached to keep the torpedoes square in the water. AU the torpedoes manufactured by the E. V. liliss Company are thoroughly teste 1, under the supervision of government officials, at the company's proving gtw.n Is off Sag Harbor. L.

The test required i.s that a torpedo shall hit three rtmes succession a tarcet set at a range of yards or about two miles and a quarter from the point where the I torpedo is started on its wonderful nuto-I math- ney. A horizontal deviation of fifty yards and a vertical deviation of eighteen inches from the center of the target, a battleship would easily be struck within this deviation. The. torpedo is launched Irom its tube.