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Thames Advertiser, Volume XII, Issue 3235, 4 February 1879, Page 3

A discovery is reported by a newspaper'of Chicago to have been made by a Mr Stempsl, of that city, which eolipses not only the electric light, but telephones, phonographs, and all the other wonderful inventions of the day. Mr Stempel proposes not only to light, hut also to heat and furnish water power for the whole,of the United States by one immerise and magnificent scheme. His proposition is that the tiles of the ocean oan furnish a constant and unlimited power which oan by friction be converted into any amount oE electricity for the purpose of creating light, heat, and power for the use of man. £e proposes to build immense basins in the sea, in the shallow water of an inlet near the shore, where there are high floods, Two walls are to be built strong enough for the purpose. One will be built at the mouths of the inlet to shut off the sea; the other a certain distance apart, to divide the inlet into two basins Each wall will have a flood-gate, through which, when open, the sea can Sow in. At high tide the flood-gate nearest the land is shut. Six hours after, at ebb tide, the gate of the outer basin is closed, and thus Mr Stempel will have one great basin full of water. Smaller gates in the wall of the first basin are then opened, and the water rushes through, turning as it runs a thousand turbine wheels, which in their turn keep in motion the electrical machines from which it is proposed to generate sufficient electricity to furnish the entire country with light, heat, and motive power. The cost will, it is estimated, not exceed 2,000,000,OOOdols.; and Mr Stempel proposes to bring the matter before Congress in its next session, and urge upon the Democrats' to go in for this scheme, instead of paying the rebel debt and claims, 1