The Archive · 1930

INVENTOR'S COSTLY FAILURE

Havana, June 26.

(An attempt to bring the Gulf Stream into a professor's laboratory near Matanzas, about 50 miles from here, where turbines would have generated electricity, has failed

[steel 2,000 yards long collapsing and syring to a giant tube'of corrugated being completely destroyed when it sank in the sea near Matanzas, The idea, elaborately worked out by the French solentist, M. Georges Claude, was to utilize the difference between the temperature of the Gulf Stream and that of the cold waters beneath and thereby to produce The experiment cost £250,000, in-ing a railway a mile and quarter long built out over the sea—Reuter,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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