TIDE HARNESSED?
USEFUL IN IRRIGATION AND DREDGING
London, August 3. After 30 years’ study Mr W. B. Sheppard, of Chichester (West Sussex). Lecturer on Applied Construction at Sheffield University, claims io have succeeded in harnessing tidal power.
Engineering experts inspected the invention and consider it ideal for pumping schemes in connection with irrigation and dredging in the Domintions.
The device costs onlv £4O. and is easily moved. It consists oi nontoons supporting a moored landingstage through which run a 31-miles-an-hour current. A buov. rising and falling with the tide, in the centre of the landing-stage, is the horizontal hub of a ten-feet diameter floating wheel, suspended perpendicularly and half of which is always submerged. The wheel consists of twelve wooden floats drop into the water and offer a full surface to the current. A belt connects the wheel with a dynamo. The machine will develop ten horse-power, and can run for hours without attention
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 205, 13 August 1927, Page 7
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