HYDRO SCHEME WRECKED
HUGE STEEL TUBE CRASHES IN GULF STREAM £30,000 INVESTED NEW YORK, Thursday. A message from Havana, Cuba, says a giant steel tube by means of which Professor Georges Claude, a French scientist, proposed to endeavour to harness the Gulf Stream for its electrical energy, collapsed and fell into the ocean. When the steel cables snapped like threads the scientists saw the of three months’ hard work and infinite pains demolished. American capital totalling £30,000 was invested in the scheme.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1009, 27 June 1930, Page 11
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