Show MOST PERFECT OF PLANTS working of the human body makes any invention of man seem like plaything the most complicated ing plant that ever existed Is the hu man body as controlled under the eel management of the brain and nervous system no factory ever boast ed a more efficient producer plant tor converting fuel into energy no plant ever had so well designed a pumping system nor one so perfect for the disposal of waste and sewage talk of date heating and ventilating or telephone 1 the best that our modern science can put into our shops lacoude la crude indeed as corn pared with that furnished by the great designer suppose that you went to a pump manufacturer with the following specification wanted a pump with capacity of one quarter gallon a minute to handle warm salty fluid to work tor seventy years night and day without a shut down at the rate of seventy strokes per minute must be guaranteed to operate tor the full period of time without repairs or adjustments to require no attention must have automatic control and contain Us own motive power and must bava a duty per million foot pounds superior to the best triple expansion high duty unit ever made do you think the manufacturer would bid lor the job K he were a timid man he would probably agree with you and tell you to come around next week meanwhile edging you toward the door before your insanity took a violent form or it he etere not afraid ot lunatics he would say you poor bug such a pump as you speak of never existed nor ever will except in the brain ot a perpetual motion freak such as I 1 see before me which shows bow much he knows about it for both you and be carry just such a pump around with you and each of you thinks too much of your possession to sell it for any money john H van deventer in the engineering magazine |