Chinese Man-Power Yields to New Machines Water is an ever present blem in China and amazing ingenuity has been exercised in the invention of contrivances for irrigate ing the land and dealing with flood waters, The modern water-turbine may be anid to be a development of the Chinese water-wheel which is such common feature of the countryside but there is no western equivaent of the coolie or buffalo driven "caterpillar" water lifter. While these are readily adjustable for dif ferences in level they are cumbersome and very inefficient as about ninety per cent. of the power applied by the coolies' weight or the is wasted in friction and water slip.
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