The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-04-26
A NOVEL MOTOR.
Electric and Wave Power
Working Together.
The Invention of a San Francisco
Genius-Adolph Sutro Interested
in the Matter.

IN the basement of large dTy-goodS
store OH Bush street stands the model OF a
motor machine calculated 70 eclipse any
thing of its kind, and also to solve the per-
petual-molion difficulty
II is to be operated by n combination of
wave-poTer and electricity-wave-p power
being the primary force. and if the con-
trivance does what its extremely sanguine
inventor expects of it, there will be no fur
Their use for steam engines on the Pacific
Coast.
The inventor is Joseph Se.b. a civil en-
gineer. and for forty years past a resident Of
California.
He is an old man with slow and feeble
step. but bright and sparkling eye that
shows no sign of the encroaehment of age.
'For fourteen years, of and on" said he.
81 have been perfectng this machine, and
at last 1t is finished. That it will be grand
uccess can have no doubt. but there is
still before me the difficulty of showing
what | have done 10 the world. l lack
money, and money is necessary to construct
a working model that will prove my sue
cess.
In three months my patent viii have beer
secured. and then shall do my best to get
men with capital 10 interest themselves in
the practical value Of my invention.
mr.. Sutro has promised already 10 give
me the right of using portion of his ocean
beach for the trial, and Mr.. NJ. ScheyeT has
also interested himself in the venture"
Mr.. Serb is evidently fearful that the re-
ward OF his life's work may be lost to him
self and the community.
His machine is simple enough in It's gen.
eral Details but there are one or two very
Intricate bits Of mechanism about II.
There is a wooden hHme to be placed
facing seaward, into which rush the
breakers and run upward twenty-five feet TO
reservoir built 10 contain 100000 gallons
ana raised thirty feet above sea level. To
carry the water the extra five feet there is
a certain complicated arrangement situated
near the mouth # the 1lume.
AT each end Of the reservoir are sunk two
shaftings twenty-five feet deep, whereinto
open pipes from the reservoir and from
which others drain from the bottom into
tile sea. IL IS In these shafts that two Pei
ton waterwheels are to be situated.
BY means OF these pumps q second reser-
votr higher up the beach will be filled with
100000 gallons Of water aud again the
contents OF the lower reservoir will be ele-
waited still higher into n third $1,000, 0C0- gal
lon tank 100 feet or so above sea- level. The
novel idea oil il all is that the water running
downward from these three elevations will
be used 10 operated an electric dynamo,
which in turn runs The pumus.
This is nv idea solely said Mr.. Serb
to The CALL reporter TO whom he was
illustrating the workings of the invention.
ut is my idea and Though many have in
vented wave-power motors of late none
have ever considered the possibility of
using The power in this drain water.
BY the aid OF this idea | have calculated
that only - per cent of the original wave
strength will be lost and a phase Of per
petual motion produced that will last as
long as the ocean waves shall continue 10
heaye."