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6 WILL GENERATE ELECTRICITY BY OCEAN WAVES Utilize Old Neptune's Energy Reynolds 9rothert* Invention Prom. Itea to Revolutionize Production of World's Heat, Light and Power t -vOOMINO and thundering and r"S pounding the sands of the sea 1-J1 -J shore, the mighty waves of the ocean have puzzled and fascinated the ir.lnd of man since he first gazed won derlngly at their dark waters. To the uncouth Ravage, the dire might em bodied In their all potent onrush seemed to speak of a powerful god whom It WM necessary to propitiate; find he wor shiped th« strange power. . Later on civilization denuded the ogre of his supernatural surroundings, j^ but the inanimate power that lurked « In his bosom, ever ready to leap forth -and devour the unsuspecting, filled the 7 mind of the mariner with mingled dread and awe. it. The theologian saw In the ceaseless, I crashing, roaring, resistless power of '.the wave the omnipotent might of I Deity itself, and its never-sleeping bil lows that crunched the swirling Bands tin their teeth breathed of his great Strength. What the Inventor Saw - ■■ The inventor, sitting at the seaside, ■watched with a vague sense of dissatis faction the rolling rise and fall of the booming waters. The resistless advance of the waves as they ebbed and flowed seemed to speak to him of mighty pow ers as yet unharnessed, and of strength sufficient to move a world. In the dark Shadows of the billows he gazed and long sought to wrest from their um -. bered waves the secret of harnessing that power. Th« gently rolling waters told i him of a power which, bridled, would perform for the world all the labor at which man was tolling away - the brief years of his existence. Small ' .-wonder that the inventor passed his days by the side of the Incomprehensi ble sea, struggling with the mystery that seemed to baffle solution. a The rolling motion of the waves ' seemed to show him in what direction his ■ search must be prosecuted, and many years ago the first wave motor ■was devised. The Instrument was floated on the surface of the water, and each successive undulation of the water added its quota to the power generated. But the first storm sufficed to show that this system was unsatisfactory. The floating machine was crunched to pieces by the force it was trying to harness, and a mass of shapeless wreckage float ed to shore to warn the Inventor that the problem was not yet solved. Brothers Seek Secret Among the inventors who sought the secret of reining in the mighty waters were Alva and George Reynolds ot Huntington Beach. Born and bred with in hearing of the ocean's ceaseiess throb, they were early attracted by its wonders. Long years of association with the king- of waters gave them an lntimate knowledge of its ways; they learned to know Its moods, in short, to love its gray, blue, green, changing bosom. Possibly because of this love the ocean that had turned an Impassive face to other searchers rewarded these children of Its care vith the secret that had baffled hundreds, nay, thous ands, before them. Suffice to say, it ■was given to these two brothers to . learn from old ocean's own waves how they could be harnessed; "and the Rey nolds brothers" wave motor is the re sult !»»•■" Was Inventor of Man Angel i' The life of the two Inventors is scarcely less interesting than their in vention itself. Born In Michigan, the family moved to California in 1875. They have lived on the coast ever since. ■ Alva Reynolds Is a scientific in ventor by inclination. Prior to the lnvention of the wave motor his most ■ Important achievement was the con struction of an aerial boat, known throughout Los Angeles and vicinity— I and, in fact, the entire country— as the "Man Angel." For many weeks the machine made ascensions in this city, and few Angelenos who were here two years ago are ignorant of the "Man Angel" and its inventor. This machine was taken all over the country and ex hibited at fairs and large gatherings. lts best flight was on such a trip, when Captain Follett drove it from Augusta to Macon, Georgia, without coming to the earth. Oeorge Rpynolds, while he is almost a celebrity in his home town, Hunting ton Beach — in which he has lived ever since the place was first settled — Ik not so widely known outside the confines of the beach town. Saves Many Lives ' ! But there he Is a hero. For the past . ! four years ho has been connected with B the bath house and life saving corps, and during this time not a single per son has lost his life on the beach. Eternally vigilant, one of the best swimmers on the coast, and of inde fatigable nerve and endurance, Rey nolds has at eight different times pulled from the surf venturesome swimmers who were being carried out to certain death by the waves. Oeorge Reynolds is a mechanical en 1 glneer by trade, but this is the first time he and his inventive brother have collaborated to produce a new machine. Alva Reynolds said last night: "How 'did we discover the secret? Well, wo used to go out on the wharf at night and sit by the hour watching the | waves come in, and discuss ways of harnessing them. The Idea simply floated In with the waves; but it took a lot of work to bring it out. After we had the first crude plan, we came out on the wharf and at night, when no one was around to disturb us, we would conduct our experiments and I make alterations. That's all there is to it." Utilizes Ebb and Flow Unlike past efforts, the Reynolds mo ' tor does not float on the surface of th« I waves. The old style motor took only I the ebb of the wave and the How was - lost altogether. In the Reynolds motor V both. ebb and How are utilized. The ' float has beta abandoned for a. vane which projects into the water and re ceives the Impact of each wave as it rushes in to the shore. The roiling water turns the wooden vane partly i and In so doing turns a crank at tbe top which is attached to th« vane and to the arm of a pump. The water , from the ocean Is pumped up by each REYNOLDS WAVE MOTOR AND THE INVENTORS motion of the waves and Is emptied into a large pipe which receives It and car ries it to a water mill on the bank. The rest of the operation is too Blmple to need explanation. The turning of the wheel generates electricity, which is collected and put to any one of a thous and or more different uses. Simplicity Attracts All The extreme simplicity of the Rey nolds brothers' Invention is at once suf ficient to commend it to the attention of even the layman. The working parts of the machine are a pump arrange ment, a submerged valve and a water mill. The result is electricity that will continue to generate as long as the waves of the sea ebb and flow. To a long "ertical or upright shaft is attached longitudinally a broad vane projecting down into the water like a great key. The upper end of the shaft la provided with a crank and attached to a suction or lift pump. The slightest motion of a wave will turn the valve at least a little; this turns with it the shaft, which works the pump. A stream of water, varing In capacity with the force of the wave, is thus pumped up to the level of the wharf to which the motor is attached, and is emptied into a large pipe that conveys the never oeasing stream to a water mill. From then on the process is the same as that of any other plant that utilizes water to create power. Perfect in Detail In addition to the wonderful discov ery underlying the invention there are many smaller points, each of merit suf ficient to call for special mention were not the mind staggered by the magni tude of the w..01e. Each shaft, vane and pump carries a separate unit, hav ing no connection whatever with the others except that all empty into the same pipe. 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No elaborate and costly mechanism is there to place the cost of the motor at an exorbitant figure. The entiro motor is Blmply an ingenious connection of wooden vanes nnd pipes, costing llttlo more than the raw material. The elec trical apparatus alone coats. Motor Will Not Break Then, too, the danger of breakage is almost nil. In the wave motors of the old type every violent storm that swept the coast on the waves of which the motors were floating would rend and tear and ruin the machines and leave them a total loss to their owners. In the Reynolds motor, no matter how vio lent the wave that strikes It, the valve will swing around on Its pivot and the flow will wash it back into place. The violence of the tempest will increase its working power, but strike the motor where it will, the wave cannot break It; the motor simply swings around to the direction of least resistance and the wave retreats baffled. For fear that the wheel might not be able to take care of all the water pumped up during a storm the inven tors have arranged an ingenious stor age system that will take care of the surplus water and keep the pressure constant. When the waves run high and the discharging pipe is full of wa ter the surplus is forced up an open pipe to a storage reservoir on a hill or bluff. When the sea is particularly ALVA L. REYNOLDS quiet and wave action falls below nor mal the reservoir discharges Its water back into the pipe and keeps the pres sure constant. May Revolutionize Labor A superficial inspeatlon of tho new motor is scarcely sufficient to fully Im press one with the tremendous signifi cance of the new discovery. The enor mous value of such a motor to the world Is almost beyond the grasp of the mortal mind. While the public may at first be skeptical of the working suc cess of the untried motor, it cannot but be nwed by the limitless realms of power such a machine if successful wll lopen up. Every telegraph line that apiderwebs the broad Americas, every railroad whose steel tracks girdle the wide prairies, every steamship that threads its cautious way across the lakes or bays of the western hemisphere could bo run by the electricity generated on the Pacific coast between this city and Santa Barbara. With the power remain ing the farmers of the great plains could drive their plows, the harrows could be run by electricity: the rnkers would gather in the crops by the same magic power. Ihc blacksmith's forge would glow with electric fire, the great iron and textile mills would throb and tremble under the strength of the mys terious power. More, the street cars would be propelled by the deadly Juice, the streets would glow with its light, the homes would be warm with its heat. With toe power of the waves from Los Angeles to San Francisco harnessed the inventors would have more power than the world could use; nd electricity would become such a glut upon the market they could not give it away. Must Prove to the World The Reynolds wave motor has not yet had an opportunity of proving its merits to a skeptical world, but the working GEORGE A. REYNOLDS plans and drawings have Impressed ex perts with a sense of the wonderful Importance of the discovery. N. O. Harmon, civil engineer for the Hunt ington Beach company, said last night: "The main thing In an invention Is correct principles and sound philosophy, «nd it would appear to me that this .notor is perfectly practical for the fol lowing reasons: First, it is simple and economical In construction and would be reasonably free from breakage and destruction from heavy seas or violent storms. "Second— Being built on the unit sys tem would make Its operation continu ous and I see no reason why a plant Installed on this plan would necessarily stop working for one minute In a life time except, of course, In a case of total destruction of a wharf or construction to which It is attached. "Third— The fact that the vane does not have to resist any of the wave force except that which it transnr..s Is a point in Its favor which would be impossible tc obtain In any other way. It would appear to me therefore that this motor will solve the wave power problem." Engineer Passes Judgment Amos A. Fries, United States engi neer in this city, is equally impressed with the importance of the new dis covery. He said: "The development of power from the ocean wavos Is a subject that has al ways appealed to me on account of the inexhaustlve stipply and world-wide distribution. As the world growß older fuel ani power for heating purposes will get scarcer and more expensive unless some unforeseen source of energy Is discovered. We must har ness the waves or give up many of our present day industries. Present day fuel is coal and oil and similar products and woo.. I oal and oil and similar products, coming as they do from material deposited in past ages, must sooner or later become exhausted, while even now our forest* are being denuded at » rate that la alarming. Light find heat am only different mnn tfostntlnns of power and If we can only get the pow«r otherwise we will need no fuel for steam or gas to run engines. Freeh Water Power Scarce "Water power from fall*, rivers and creeks Is excellent when available, but nil inch power is being rapidly put in r»e and In many ca"s«s being carried lnn*I Inn* distances at great cost and with considerable loss. "Where sea and land meet there are our groat cities, and there In where most of our manufacturing is don«. "The power derived from waves will bcb be used close to where It Is produced, and consequently at a minimum cost for transmission lines, etc. if any wave n.otor of which I have knowledge will bcb be a success the neynolds Is the one. "By utilizing the horizontal compon cente ent of the wave Instead of the vertical they avoid the use of any sort of float, which Is always liable to destruction from the very horizontal component that is utilized. On the other hand, the very nature of this motor almost precludes the possibility of Injury by the vertical component of the wave. In fact, where any sort of wharf or pier will stand there will this motor stand. Unit System Is Advantage "Another excellent and desirable fea ture Is that every power plant will be made up of a number of these simple motors, thereby making It a unit sys tem with all tho advantages which that lmplies.I Implies. Thus, one or more units may fall or wear out and the plant run con* tinuously while they are being repaired or replaced. "Indsstruetlbllity is one of the chief factors In any wave motor and by doing away with the float and substituting therefor a vano the inventors have re duced.the breakage to a minimum. Ino water may chase the vane to all points of the compass, but it can hardly catch ltI It where It can be broken. "The proposed storage system, while no part of the patent, Is nevertheless on Important part of the plant, as it will equalize the wave energy and thereby produce a steady output of power from the waves' Intermittent ac tion. With a large number of units properly placed a reservoir may not be necessary or at most only a compara tively small one.' ' Form Stock Company A largo number of Los Angeles and Huntington Beach buslnes srnen have formed the California Wave Motor company to exploit the new invention, and they will at once begin demon strating what their motor can do. The officers of the company are: President, Alva L. Reynolds; vice president, Amos Raymer; secretary, H. E. Bennett; treasurer, S. L. Blodget; directors, Amos A. Fries, room 637, Citizens Na tional Bank building; Amos Raymer, room 430, Citizens National Bank build ing; Alva L. Reynolds, Huntington Beach; J. E. Schweng, room 604, Union Trust building; J. L,. Cobb, room 604, Union Trust building; George A. Rey nolds, Huntington Beach; S. L. Blod get, Huntington Beach; H. E. Bennett, Huntington Beach; James Kerr, room 435, Citizens National Bank building. GOOD SAMARITAN SUFFERS FROM FRACTURED ARM G. Graig, 2427 Houston street, suffered a broken right arm in a peculiar man ner yesterday afternoon. A wagon .was stuck In a mud hole on East First street and Graig attempted to aid the driver in drawing the wagon out. The man grasped the spokes of one of the rear wheels and the driver gave, the word to the horses to go. Graig's hand caught between the spokes and his arm was broken In three places. Graig was removed to the German hos pital. POLITE BURGLAR LEAVES SUITCASE ROBBER IS A CHESTERFIELD IN MANNERS Compelled to Btop Work of Rifling House When Women Cnll and Forgets His Plunder "T, Inn, ntn looking for the womnn of the houne." said a nice lonklrip, wHI dressed young follow who smlMenly •I from tho rear of till at 1409 Wright street. Two women who had gone to cnll on Mrs. X T. Ha »™n. and wero lllgontly ringing the bell, looked up lnI In surprise and saw a smiling stranger standing by tho edge of the porch. his hat in Ma hand. "I guess there Is no one at home, as I went to the back door and could not attract the atten tion of any one." With this the man bowed like a Chesterfield and walked off. < The women, deciding Mrs. Haggeman was not at home, nlso left the place. Mrs. Hn.ggo.man returning Boon after found the house had been ransacked She first missed a quantity of silver ware valued at $100 and looked further but missed nothing else. Going Into tho bedroom, she noticed a suit case which hnd been placed under the bed. Wondering why it had been left there she stooped to pick It up. The suit case wan heavy. Mrs. Haggeman finally succeeded In opening the case nnd found it contained all her mlsßlng silverware. Unable to account for the mystery, she notified tho police Neighbors Saw Man Investigation showed entranoo hnd been effected through a side, window, and the thief had evidently left the same way. Inquiry In the neighborhood brought out tho fact that a nicely dressed younsr man had been seen climbing through the window with a suitcase In his hand. Later he had been seen com ing out without the case. His cool ness and apparent familiarity with tho place disarmed all suspicion, and the woman who saw him thought nothing of the circumstances. Mrs. Haggeman Is not worrying about: the affair. She lost nothing and has a handsome suit case as a souvenir of the burglar's visit. It Is thought the man was interrupted In his work by the two women ringing the bell, and jumped out of the window after placing the suitcase under the bed. It is said he probably Intended to return for it on the departure of tho women who interrupted him, but the arrival of Mrs. Haggeman soon after kept him from completing the job. Miners Caught in Tunnel By Associated Press. TACOMA. Wash, March 16.— 8y a cave-in at the Fairfax coal mine, thirty miles from Tacoma, two miners were caught in a tunnel yesterday and it is feared they met death. Relays of men are working in the hope they may be rescued. The men are brothers, Tony and Fred Cela, both unmarried.