. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. ria, there is alarge ice breaker used for transportingtrains, goods and wagons across thisgreat inland sea. This craft, one of thelargest of its kind, can claim the distinc-tion of having been assembled by con-victs. The vessel was built on the Tynein England and after being tested itwas dismantled, the various parts num-bered, and then sent by train and boat very good workmen. We felt a littlenervous about them at first, as amongthem were many men who had been ban-ished to Siberia for murder and otherdeplorable crimes. The majority con-sisted o
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. ria, there is alarge ice breaker used for transportingtrains, goods and wagons across thisgreat inland sea. This craft, one of thelargest of its kind, can claim the distinc-tion of having been assembled by con-victs. The vessel was built on the Tynein England and after being tested itwas dismantled, the various parts num-bered, and then sent by train and boat very good workmen. We felt a littlenervous about them at first, as amongthem were many men who had been ban-ished to Siberia for murder and otherdeplorable crimes. The majority con-sisted of political exiles and many ofthese were men of high took great interest in the bigship and could hardly believe it waspossible to construct a ship large enoughto carry trains. THE AGE OF THE OCEAN The ocean is not, of course, as old asthe earth, since it could not be formeduntil the surface of the globe had cooledsufficiently to retain water on it. Itmay, therefore, seem chimerical to tryto measure the age of the sea, but the. Big Ship Assembled by the Convicts of Russian Prison Under the Direction of Two English Engineers to the lake. The ship alone consistedof over 6,000 separate parts, and themachinery some 1,200 parts, their com-bined weight totalling over 3,000 at their destination the vari-ous parts were reassembled by the con-victs from the Russian prison nearbyunder the direction of two English en-gineers. We found these workmen, says oneof the engineers, a very hardy lot,rough and ready, but certainly oblig-ing and willing. Indeed, they proved task has been undertaken. The esti-mate has been based upon the ratio ofsodium it contains annually con-tributed by I ho washings Prom the con-tinents. The conclusion has ilius been reached that the ocean has been in ex-istence millions and onehundred and seventy millions of years. This does not seem to he a very definite determination, hut. in geology, esti-mates of time in
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