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REVIEW OF REV/EWS. 



March 1, I'JlS, 



market for it ; it was a waste product. 

 In that year, though, one Johannes Spiel 

 patented the first explosive gas engine. 

 Then, at a single leap, the genie petrol 

 came into his own. t rom being the 

 most despised of petroleum products, 

 petrol became the most important. It 

 fattened the earnings of the oil com- 

 panies, it stimulated the quest of petro- 

 leum. In 1895, ten years approximately 

 after the introduction of the motor-car, 

 the annual sales had reached a total of 

 fourteen million gallons. In 1900 they 

 were twenty-two millions, in 1905 thirty- 

 one millions, in 1910 fifty millions — 

 enough, it has been figured, to drive a 

 touring car for forty-five thousand 

 times the distance between the earth and 

 the moon. 



The demand is increasing rapidly. 

 Half a million motor-cars in the United 

 States alone, to say nothing of thou- 

 sands of explosion engines harnessed to 

 other emplo\-ment, from cleaving the 

 empyrean blue to pumping water from 

 the bowels of the earth, are existent 

 solely by grace of this fuel. Peace has 

 its revolutionists, and among them the 

 name of Johannes Si^iel deserves to be 

 'inked with those of James Watt and 

 Robert Fulton. 



Fortunately thus far the suppl}' of 

 petroleum has been able, with the aid of 

 the inventors, to keep step with the de- 

 mand for gasoline. The 1910 produc- 

 tion showed an increase over that of 

 1909 m all oil-producing countries ex- 

 cept Galicia, the Dutch East Indies, 

 British India and Canada. There was 

 in the latter year a grand total increase 

 of 29.146,183 barrels of forty-two gal- 

 lons each. The United States, which 

 suppl.es nearly three times as much as 

 her nearest competitor, Russia, pumped 

 during 191 o all of 209,556,048 barrels, 

 as against 183,170,874 in 1909. 



KEROSENE THE MOTIVE POWER OF THE 

 FUTURE. 



As petrol is gradually approaching 

 to kerosene standards, there is every pro- 

 bability that the motor-car of to-morrow 

 will derive its power from kerosene 

 alone, or from a mixture of kerosene 

 and petrol. The moment a carburettor 

 is perfected to handle it, the cost of 

 running internal combustion engines 

 will be greatly reduced, and the disap- 

 pearance of the steam engine will be 

 brought appreciabK' nearer. 



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