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Show A YOUTHFUL ELECTRICIAN. Wonderful Work Being Done by a Chicago Chi-cago Boy. Chicago, 111., July28.-Very quietly and almost sub rosa a young Chicago electrician is working out an idea of his own for the perfection of an electric steamboat propeller. The inventor proposes to drive a boat of any size, and by a storage battery of his own design, de-sign, to be charged from a battery, also invented bv him. with an especial object ob-ject iu view: of its economy in the matter mat-ter of fuel. His design is all but accomplished, accom-plished, and electricians who hav e seen the working model say that the boy has his fame and fortune in that little ship. The young man is L. L. Summers hardly out of his teens and by all odds the youngest professional electrician in the country YnS ""ffS his business career under his father, Prof C. H. Summers, electrical engi-neer'of engi-neer'of the Western Union Telegraph company. |