. The street railway review . iments that are nowabout to be carried out there, and which the promotersbelieve will contain the resultsof all the experiences hithertoderived regarding the utiliza-tion of the energy of the wavesof the ocean in the develop-ment of power. Almost fromthe earliest appreciation of thevalue of power the mind of manhas been captivated with thepossibilities of wave motors,but the fact of the commerciallysuccessful utilization of suchprime movers is vet to be re-corded. (Jn the iacific coast severalrather extensive experimentshave been made, two of which,in San Francisc
. The street railway review . iments that are nowabout to be carried out there, and which the promotersbelieve will contain the resultsof all the experiences hithertoderived regarding the utiliza-tion of the energy of the wavesof the ocean in the develop-ment of power. Almost fromthe earliest appreciation of thevalue of power the mind of manhas been captivated with thepossibilities of wave motors,but the fact of the commerciallysuccessful utilization of suchprime movers is vet to be re-corded. (Jn the iacific coast severalrather extensive experimentshave been made, two of which,in San Francisco, gave naughtbut discouragement in repayfor the efforts and money whichtheir promoters of these experimentswere carried out on the rocksbevond the Cliff House, andone of the wrecks shown in Figure i. existsas a monument to the fond but delusive hopes of the inventors. The first experiment atthe Cliff House was that of the Steen wave motor (Fig-ure I ). The rocks at the point of its location form a. KKiCKK I—A WHKIKI:D WAVK MOTOK ished and then the main timbers of the paddle gaveaway, and with it the perseverance of the inventor suc-cumbed, as the wreck now standing evidences. It wasdesigned that the pump should force water from the ocean to the top of the hill, atan elevation of between threeand foiu hundred feet, and thepumping plant w^as put in withthis intention, but the tTrst rushconstituting the maximum pow-er of each wave, imparted sucha blow to the pumping equip-ment as to not onh prove theweakness of the machinery in-stalled, but also to demonstratethe fact that something wasradicalh wrong with the designof the apparatus. The next effort at the CliffHouse, and which constitutesthe last endeavor there madetoward the utilization of wavepower, resulted in the buildingof elaborate paraphernalia, theruins of which still exist. The principle upon whichthis apparatus was constructedwas the one yet predominatingin the minds of inventors, name-ly,
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