CADBURY'S COCOA.
Absolutely Puke—Therefore Best, A Frenoh engineer, M. Docoeur, proposes to supply electric power to Paris, He would generate the required electricity bjr utilising the tides. For this purpose be intends to construct near Havre, two large banns joined to each other, into one of which the aea at flood-tide flows over a dam, while during ebb it flows out of the other into the sea again. At the inlet and outlet will bo erected a number of poweiful turbines for transmitting the energy o! the water. The mechanical energy produced for transmission to Paris is estimated by M, Decoeur at 42,000 horse-power.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 9168, 13 December 1890, Page 4
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104CADBURY'S COCOA. New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 9168, 13 December 1890, Page 4
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