. The street railway review . s, making a total of 2,045,543. The car mileage was870,016, a daily average of 126 miles for each car. Theaverage passenger fare was cents. For January, 1898,37,836 more passengers were carried than in the samemonth of last year. The remarkable showing was in thenumber of accidents, only two persons being injured andthese but slightly. 80 ^tiM%ilv\^S\g\%W* THE WRIGHT WAVE MOTOR. For some years experiments have been carried on in Cali-fornia to determine the merits of various wave motors. Themotor herewith illustrated is the invention of Parvin Wright,who, aft
. The street railway review . s, making a total of 2,045,543. The car mileage was870,016, a daily average of 126 miles for each car. Theaverage passenger fare was cents. For January, 1898,37,836 more passengers were carried than in the samemonth of last year. The remarkable showing was in thenumber of accidents, only two persons being injured andthese but slightly. 80 ^tiM%ilv\^S\g\%W* THE WRIGHT WAVE MOTOR. For some years experiments have been carried on in Cali-fornia to determine the merits of various wave motors. Themotor herewith illustrated is the invention of Parvin Wright,who, after some prelimmary experiments in January, 1897,organized the Wright Wave Motor Company. In June,1897, the Los Angeles Ocean Power Company was organ-ized to build a plant on the coast and transmit power to Such installation was made at a point on theocean beach three miles north of Redondo and about 18miles from Los Angeles, to which has been given the namePotencia. A wharf 26 ft. wide was built out to a distance. WRIGHT WAVE MOTOR AT POTENCIA. of 350 ft., at which point the swells usually begin to break,and three motor floats placed at the outer end. The energy of the waves is utilized by means of floatswhich operate vertical hydraulic compressors, or pump cyl-inders, which are in turn connected with a large storagepressure tank of heavy steel. The movement of the wavesraises and lowers these floats, and in doing so, pumps freshwater from a small reservoir into the pump cylinders andforces it into the storage pressure tank, where by compress-ing the air contained in the tank the water becomes sub-jected to a very heavy pressure. It flows out of the tankthrough a nozzle and impinges upon the buckets of a Peltonwater wheel, by which is driven the dynamo or other ma-chine to be operated. From the water wheel the waterflows back to the reservoir from which it was originally
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