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prpieincJ:on*'Capt. Van Beck in Wash- a ingtan Pushing Gasoline I Flj' Engine Patent. I pre*1 Hprelt;Engine for Automobile Use-Local 1Stock Co; May be Formed to Manufacture Burlington Inventions.ond 1J. is t casan* for cla a lt;neiMrCaptain Van Beek, of this city, de- taa parted this morning for Washington,D. C., to arrange for securing a pat- I ent on a gasoline engine he has indented. This engine will be utilized as motive power for automobiles and is pronounced by experts who have examined it, to be one of the most practical and at the sopac time simple and effective engines for this purpose ever I constructed. The inventor has made ^ engines of this character the study of ^ a great many years and has experl- I minted with them until he has reached j 1 a stage bordering oij perfection. ^ Another of the offsprings of his inven-tivc genius is a gasoline engine for use I ^ on farms, to supplant the windmill. I These engines do not cost as I much as the cheapest windmill, { , their mechanism is so simple that any- ^ one can understand it and operate one ^ and the cost of operation is a mere tri-tie. They can be put to the same usee ^ for which the ordinary wind mill is ^ utilized a\ moved to any part of the ^ farm. Cat dn Van Beek does not an- ^ ticipate t.'^lightest trouble in dispos- I ing of his engines as soon as he puts them on the market.Mr. F. W. Foerster. the Court street blacksmith and inventor, is a hearty believer in Captain Van Beak’s inventions and is confident that they are all the Captain claims for them. He has backed up this opinion by filing an order for the first one manufactured.A New Enterprise.Although the idea is still in the embryo, there is a strong possibility that in the near future a stock company will be organized to manufacture exclusive Burlington inventions.Mr. Foerster, who Is the inventor of a spoke tenoning machine and several other useful.and labor-saving devices, Captain Van Beek, who besides his gasoline engine has contributed to th^ mechanical world a number of other inventions and several local capitalists, have the project of the formation of a manufacturing company in mind, which would in the course of time prove to be one of Burlington’s most substantial Industrial concerns. Not less than fifty skilled mechanics wilt be employed at wages from $2.75 to $3.00 per day, besides the common labor, etc.The articles that it is proposed to manufacture are all good sellers and there is no reason why the company should not meet with success.
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Burlington Evening Gazette
Burlington, Iowa, US
Fri, Mar 08, 1901
Page 5
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Burlington P.
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