HARNESSING THE SEA
SCHEME PGR USING TIDES BRITISH INVENTOR’S DEVICE. LONDON, August 2. After thirty years’ study, Mr W. B. Sheppard, of Chichester, West Sussex, lecturer on applied construction at Sheffield University, claims in have succeeded in harnessing tidal power. . Engineering experts who inspected the invention consider it ideal for pumping themes in connection with irrigation in the dominions. The device costs only £4O, and is easily moved. It consists of pontoons supporting a moored lauding stage, through which runs ti current of water running at the rate of three and a-half miles an hour. A buoy, rising and fulling with the tide, in the centre of the landing stage is the horizontal hub of a 10ft diameter floating wheel, _ suspended perpendicularly, half of which is always submerged. The wheel consists of twelve wooden floats, which drop into the water and oiler a full surface to tho current. A belt connects the wheel with a dynamo. Tho machine will develop 10 h.p., and can nm for hours without attention.
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Evening Star, Issue 19634, 13 August 1927, Page 9
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169HARNESSING THE SEA Evening Star, Issue 19634, 13 August 1927, Page 9
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