The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-04-19

pint OF water, he wants oceans of it; In
fact, he intends to utilize the rolling mo-
tion of the ship to propel it. In his ship
is suspended movable platform, hung
SO as to yield to the pitching or rolling
motion of the vessel. This, at its bottom,
gears directly upon the propeller shaft, SO
that there is the least possible loss of
power. As this platform is inclined to an
angle of thirty degrees, the propeller
makes eight rev olutiOns, continuing to re-
vOlve in the same direction when the plat
form is tilted the other way.
Mr.. Chomel says that a ship at sea rolls
about ten times per minute, and that he
will thus secure in brisk sea eighty rev.
OlutiOns per minute. Of course, the in
vcntion is only in its infancy yet. Few
can realize the immense influence this
newly discovered power is going to have
on the future of the world. If the roll.
ing of the waves will propel boat it will
run mill, factory, foundry or any other
kind of machinery. Real estate will fall
and water lots will 60 up. On every
hand will lie seen posters announcing the
sale of choice and wavy sections of lake
and ocean at lowest prices. Advertise
ments will appear in the Free Press of
that time something as follows:
The subscriber has just erected grist mill on
one of the toughest sections of Lake Erie In
calm weather only custom work done, but dur
ing storms he is prepared to furnish Hour for
home or foreign consumption.
On good windy day we may expect to
see all sorts of factories nodding away at
each other ON the river, and free and
dustries never before experienced. Then,
<1,a1 ch0lyv nv ,ov,tS
the better it will be for his prospects; it
is far otherwise now. As NAV he expect
ed, this new system of things will have its
drawbacks. We shall read items like the
following:
During the gale yesterday, the saw-mill of j.
Smith, near Windsor, was working at its high
est rolling power, when it broke loose and ran
into William Jones' soap factory at the middle
of the river. Before the storm subsidized the
saw-mill had most Of the soap factory cut into
six-inch strips in spite of the efforts of the new
car-works and rolling-mill to separate them. No
insurance.
But then there are immense advantages
in connection with the Brooklyn inven.
ton that it is impossible to estimate
What boon it will be to humanity when
a man comes home at questionable hours,
finding the street all too narrow for
him, to explain to an inquiring po-
liceman or an investigating wife, that he
has not yet got accustomed to the stability
of dry land after rolling around in his
office at the mill all day. At the Board of
Trade bapquets a regular toast will be
"Our manufactures-long may they
wave," which will be responded to by q
song" Rocked in the Cradle of the
Deep" or the band will strike up "a
Life on the Ocean Wave" and our man
ufacturing interests will indeed have "A
Home on the Rolling Deep" Thus it is
that Isaac Chomel has answered the long
established conundrum, What are the
Wild Waves Saying ?" and tits to be hoped
that Isaac will soon render serviceable
that vast portion of the earth's surface
which has hitherto been more useful to
commerce than to Detroit
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