Show EACH ACU MAN IN m 1113 OWN 01 BOAT Frenchman Devises Invention to Propel Person P in Water Water by Petrol Motor New York Sept 12 A cable dis dispatch dispatch dispatch patch to a morning paper aper I from Paris says The French inventor who devised the motor boats has now conceived an of ot the petrol motor for sup supplying supplyIng supplying plying the human body with mechanical mechanIcal mechanical ical power for propulsion pr In the tho water Every man may thus become his own motor boat boatIn boatIn boatIn In order to use the device a Derson person need not be a swimmer for In addition to Its propulsive powers tho the apparatus is devised to keep the A watertight box containing a little petrol petr l engine and a fuel supply i Is J I strapped to the users back Other parts of the apparatus comprise a saddle like a ram on which the user sits air bags to give the necessary 1 buoyancy and a propeller which Is op operated operated operated by the engine Two rods give control of the speed while the steering ste Is accomplished by b altering the position position tion of ot the hands The inventor thinks that the chief use of the apparatus will be in life lifesaving lifesaving lifesaving saving for in an emergency the oper operator operator operator ator has only to start the motor by turning a little crank sling sUng the box on his back get Into the saddle and launch himself in the water |