Magazine Article About Wave Power from 1932
February 5th, 2008Tell me another one about the energy “crisis.”
Via: Modern Mechanix:
The cover of Modern Mechanix magazine, August, 1932
Putting Nature’s Power to Work
Methods of Harnessing Natural Energy Described by DICK COLE
Upward of 40,000 inventions a year are granted patents by Uncle Sam, but not one of these offers a practical solution of the problem which scientists agree is the most pressing of them all— that is, how to harness natural sources of energy for power. Mr. Cole does not profess to have solved the problem, but the methods he describes here point out the trend of probable development.
WHAT is the most needed invention? Not television—not new kinds of airplanes—not speedier automobiles. Men of science are agreed that what the world needs most is a motor which converts the sun’s rays and other forms of natural energy into usable power. Orville Wright, Lee De Forest, Elihu Thomson, and other leading scientists are among those who proclaim the need for a new motor.
There are two sources of inexhaustible energy which at once occur to the inventor —wave or tidal power, and solar rays. A. Los Angeles inventor has developed a wave motor—an “inertia” motor, he calls it— which gives promise of being developed into a practical commercial project.
Some other interesting Modern Mechanix pages related to energy:
Batteries of Robots Scoop Power From Sea With Shovels (May, 1934)
New Efforts May Harness SUN LIGHT (Oct, 1934)
Related: The International Passamaquoddy Tidal Power Project
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