A SUB-MARINE CARRIAGE.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 133, 23 September 1876, Page 2

A SUB-MARINE CARRIAGE.

One of the most remarkable, and at the same time impracticable, plans which has been suggested for rapid and agreeable transit across the English Channel, has recently been exhibited at the Palace d'lndnstrie, in Paris, by its inventor, Dr. La Combe. He calls his project "the sub-marine boat," but the boat is merely the portion of a huge carriage which is to run up a railroad laid on the sea bottom. There is no tunnel, nor anything there-

unto resembling. The road ;bedj beton, which is laid by divers, and on! are fastened three galvanised iron 5 The outer ones are for the wheels of, carriage, and the inner one is to be embraced by rollers centrally tached to the latter, in order to pr« rolling and derailment. The boat, at points watertight, is secured to the h{ carriage, and the whole is driven a screw actuated by compressed transported in suitable reservoirs, latter also supply fresh atmospl, for respiration within the boat, a machine is provided for reniot any excess, as well as the vitiated The interior is illuminated by the elec light, the current being led to the ve by a wire from Dover ; said wire : serves for telegraphic purposes. Tha ventor proposes. to ai'range guard-rail as to keep the track always clear, and provides a double-doored chamber invessel, so that, in case of necessity, a di can emerge to examine the line. Shoi by any possibility, the vessel stop, a bi is immediately sent to the surface of water, carrying an air tube, so that supply of air may not fall short; ani case of grave accident, the vessel cat altogether cut loose from the carri when it will rise to the surface and i A seriss of buoys on the surface will m the line of road. Dr. La Combe thi that his project is practicable, and belie that his vessel could make the journej twenty-one miles in about half an hom Exchange.