The Daily Telegraph has done good set vice in exposing one of the «cieotific wonders with which the minds of magazine readers have recently been delighted. The particular miracle dealt with is the ship which was to be driven with liquid air, and would cross the Atlantic at a cost of £SO. The inventor was a man with the crudest notions about elementary scientific truths, who virtually mentioned in his account that he had discovered a meaui of perpetual motion which he called " a great principle in science." Yet on the strength of his " discoveries " companies were actually being formed in America. "Ab uno disce omnes." In newspapers and magazines of the sensational sort we are at present being deluged with this sort of nonsense. —London Truth, May 18th, 1599.
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Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 464, 22 July 1899, Page 1 (Supplement)
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130Untitled Waikato Argus, Volume VII, Issue 464, 22 July 1899, Page 1 (Supplement)
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