. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. e coast, a manin California is constructing a highpowered motor boat with which tomake a trip around the world. The ship is of no mean proportions,being 62 feet long and containing sixlarge rooms. It will have storage tanksfor 2,500 gallons of gasoline and 1,000gallons of fresh water. It will also havea sea water distilling apparatus, a highpower electric generator for a lightingsystem, one mounted machine gun andlarge boxes of earth for growing greenvegetables while on a voyage. The ship will cost in the neighborhoodof $7,000 to construct. When
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. e coast, a manin California is constructing a highpowered motor boat with which tomake a trip around the world. The ship is of no mean proportions,being 62 feet long and containing sixlarge rooms. It will have storage tanksfor 2,500 gallons of gasoline and 1,000gallons of fresh water. It will also havea sea water distilling apparatus, a highpower electric generator for a lightingsystem, one mounted machine gun andlarge boxes of earth for growing greenvegetables while on a voyage. The ship will cost in the neighborhoodof $7,000 to construct. When completedit will be transported, as a whole, to thesea coast on two caterpillar engines andits gas;engine power plant will be installedafter launching. The owner of the mountain shipyard is Geo. Trissel, a rancher living atLa Habra, Calif., who originally camefrom Dixon on the Rock River of has planned an expedition similar tothat of the famous author, Jack London expedition, which wasattempted about eight years ago, was. Making Light Work of HouseMoving 1148 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE overwhelmed with an epidemic of scurvyand abandoned. Trissel has made pro-visions against scurvy by providingconveniences to grow green vegetablesat sea. Trissel will make the voyage in theinterest of a prominent magazineto which he will contributefeature articles. He will also The Mountain Shipyard and the Roundthe-World Motor Boat discovered and necessary repairs linemen, while hurriedly patrolingthe line, suddenly came upon two deadturkeys—one lying on the ground belowthe wires, and the charred body of theother still clinging to the wire.
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