Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-17
SCIENTIFIC WORLD
WATCHES EXPERIMENT
MACHINERY FOR WAVE MOTOR
COMPLETED
Practical Demonstration Of Ideas of
Reynolds Brothers VIII Be
Made at Huntington
Beach

An experiment In wave power pro-
drction is soon to be made at Hunting
ton Beach, the result of which will be
looked forward to by the scientific
world with extraordinary interest, In
asmuch as 1t is the opinion of the most
eminent authorities, as we'll as the un-
qualified claim OF its inventors. that
this attempt to harness the god OF
waters will prove to be a solution to
one OF the hardest problems that have
heretofore baffled and set at naught all
the genius of the past century.
The government of England spent
couple of million dollars several years
ago trying to establish a wave motor,
and various gigantic and costly expert
ments have been made at different
times and places the world over, and
yet the unbridled power of the waves
Is still going to waste on the sandy
shore.
The weight of cubic foot Of water In
the ocean is about sixty-two and halr
pounds, and the phenomena OF wave
action, their frequency. their minimum
and maximum velocity, their striking
force, their destructive capacity ana
their value in power have long since
been established by government ex-
perts, and yet 1t has remained all these
years LOT Ine Illdn VI tiNohbAfC III
stincts to point out the way and estab-
llsh the principle by which the mighty
force of the waves of the ocean may be
gathered and made to do mans bid
ding.
Aiva L. Reynolds. one of the inventors
and patentees of the Reynolds Bros.s
wave motor, said yesterday:
I'VE claim that our patent provides
a final and complete solution OF the
wave power problem. and the state
ment is made without reservation or
qualification.
Have Complete System
I'VE have something more than a
wave motor, however. We have COM
plete wave power system of production,
equalization and transmission.
I'VE do not only make this statement,
but we prove 1t by every rule of estab'
lished science bearing upon the subject
and the machine we are about to install
at Huntington Beach will soon demon
strate it to the satisfaction of all.
There is only one solution to any
one problem. and the wave power prob
lie mwill never be solved but once In the
worlds history. and now is the ac-
cepted time. The world has waited
long enough for 1t. and enough failures
have been made to point out the way
how not to do It,"
How do you account for the appall-
ing record Of failures in the past?" was
asked.
wrong principles" was the ready
reply. 1.-THE prevailing thoughts in the
minds of wave motor inventors have
been of the rise and fall of the wave
motion, when in fact the greater force
of wave action is in its horizontal mo-
ton.
"Those who think they are studying
the wave power question and are
studying 1t from the standpoint of
floating barge. are at least fifty years
behind the times. for II 1T could have
been done that way the problem would
have been solved long before this.
"The wave motor which we are about
to install is a total departure from all
the old threshed out theories with
which the patent Office records are
strewn.
"The discovery of the principle in
volved in our wave motor makes 1t one
of the simplest things ever invented.
"This plant which we are going to
install at Huntington Beach will not
be q try, nor a model, but a full-sized
unit of power, and will be a producer
when finished"