Los Angeles herald., 1907-07-21
SOLVES PROBLEM
OF OCEAN WAVES
GREAT THINGS CLAIMED FOR
NEW INVENTION
Reynolds Motor Now Being Installed
at Huntington Beach May Rev.
oIutionize Production of
Power

Ceaselessly beating against the shores
pounding with a force unequaled by any
of the contrivances invented by man, tor
Years the waves and their power nave
been the subject of thought for some OF
the greatest brains of the age
"If it were only possible to harness the
waves and take their power from them
what a great thinYit would be- lnVen-
tors have said, and for years they nave
worked in an effort to prlng ABOUT tnal
much desired result.
Many wave motors have been invented
Many men have claimed to have mas
tered the secret and to be able to con-
ouer the power of the ocean. The ma
jority of the motors invented have, now
ever proved deficient in some way ana
been consigned to the rubbish pile. one
of them has not. This successful wave
motor is the one invented by the Reyn-
olds brothers and which is now being IN
stalled at Huntington Beach.
This motor will be test machine and'
according to the inventors, will demon
strate to the world the marvels and pos
sibilities of transmitting the power of the
sea to inland cities by means OF copper
wires strung across the land.
Inventor Alva Reynolds, to whose skill
and ingenuity the existence of the ma
chine is due, is a very modest and un-
assuming man to meet but he is filled
to overflowing with the real inventor
enthusiasm for his machine. He says
it will win its way some day and he Will
then be happy in having proven to the
world that man is master of the seas
as we'll as the land.
To a Herald reporter Mr.. Reynolds
said:
Many Wave Motors Invented
"This is by no means a new subject,
for careful search of the records OF the
United States patent office will reveal the
fact that 1t has been in the minds of in
ventors for the past century. Hundreds
of patents have been granted on so-called
wave motor devices and every attempt
so far recorded to put any of them into
practice has resulted in failure. The
main thing in an iEvenuon that is to
solve a great problem is correct principle
and sound philosophy, and the great in
ventions of today are more the discoy-
cries of the philosopher than the product
of mechanical genius. Every cubic foot
OF water in the ocean weighs 62h pounds.
"This means that a cube of water ten
feet square weighs the enormous sum
of 62,500 pounds. The vast body of
water in the ocean is always in motion
and every wave that is sent from the
bosom of the deep to hurl itself against
the barren shore represents wasted
energy equal to the strength of thou
sands of horses. If this great force
could be relied upon to always travel
in the same direction and always do the
same thing, the secret of harnessing IT
would have been solved a hundred
years ago. But, the fact is that it
comes and goes, from and to all points
of the compass, with all sorts of vary
ing degrees of velocity, in the course
of a year, and is guilty of every con-
ceivable prank and caper imaginable
Great Force of Waves
"It is matter of established data
that the horizontal motion of the water
during wave action is vastly greater
than the vertical, or UP and down mo-
ton, and the force of the ebb and flow
of the wave, which is merely the com
ing and going of the water in its effort
to find it's level, is the force that all
marine structure has to reckon with
1t is this ebb and flow, or horizontal
motion of the water, that has wrecked
every motor that has ever been tried
which depended on a float as means
of transmitting power. 1t is this hori-
zontal force that hurls the strongest
iron -cIads against the shore and
brushes them as If they were egg
shells. 1t is this force that beats down