"FOG BROOM” DEVELOPED
TRENTON, (New Jersey). The New Jersey Highway Commission is studying the possibility of using a “fog broom,” developed by farmers in northern Chile, to solve the problem of fog along sections of the busy New Jersey turnpike. The fog broom to constructed of stationary vertical wood frames set at right angles and strung with heavy nylon threads, through which the wind blows the mountain mists.
The nylon attracts the moisture, and droplets of water form on the strings and run down pipes leading to a watering system. Highway department engineers have adapted this idea to a rotating broom run by an engine. Several of the brooms would be mounted on travel tn tandem to clear a flat-bed trucks and would [ path through the fog.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31128, 3 August 1966, Page 10
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