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AUSTRALIAN INVENTOR’S CLAIM. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. _ LONDON, April 29. Mr Chalmers Kearney, an Australian engineer, gave a demonstration of a highspeed railway designed to communicate between Circular quay and Milson’s Point, Sydney, by a tube under the harbor. (lb is a model railway installed yi tho monorail system, with mi overhead guiding rail following the gradients necessary in communicating unties the harbor. Tho model cars worked without a hitch. The inventor claims that the cars could convey 20,000 passengers . hourly, the transit occupying sixty-iive seconds, at an estimated cost of £750,000, ns against £10,000,000 for Bradfleld’s bridge. The tube could be readily duplicated to carry twice the numbers. The principle of gravity is utilised for developing high speed.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17956, 1 May 1922, Page 6
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