Show to calm the waters an ingenious invention with the object of lessening the force of waves and to supersede the old fashion of floating oil has been exhibited at the paris headquarters of the central society for the saving of life in shipwrecks it is proposed to cover the surface of the sea around an endangered vessel with a thin cotton or eilken net rendered merrible mer sible and ever floating by being dipped in a special chemical preparation the idea is due to the fact that when crossing the track of the gulf it has been noticed that the vast spreading fields of floating seaweed the confines of the stream though up heaved by the swell remain glassy and smooth the bet acts in the same manner as ho seaweed some experiments have already been carried out at belle isle london court journal |