A Very promising Invention.
Elisih E Evkuett, a cabinet maker and inventor, of Philadelphia, who has taken out twenty or thirty different patents for mechanical appliances, is now at work on an invention that, if successful, may completely revolutionise ocean and railway travel. This is nothing else than the reduplication of steam power. He has designed a steamboat which, by means of a succession of paddles bervath the water, may attain a speed of thirty knots an hour and acoomplish a trip to Europe in three or four days.
In a recent lecture on the fixed stars, Mr. David Gill, F.R.S., who ia now director of the astronomical observatory at the Cape of Good Hope, mentioned an interesting fact which may conveniently be remembered. " Light," he said, " takes almost exactly five hundred seconds to come from the sun ; this is a figure easy to remember, and is probably exact to a single unit." As to the supposed distance of the sun from the earth, whioh is a subject to which he has devoted special study, Mr. Gill expressed the opinion that the accepted figure of ninety-three millions of miles could not be moro than two hundred thousand mJea out of the way.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1985, 28 March 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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202A Very promising Invention. Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1985, 28 March 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)
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