Show REMEDY FOR seasickness sit ir loonry 11 4 r ship which PT prod v d a reineiro rei leiro A quarter of a century ago the late sir henry bessemer tackled the problem which thousands ot of bis his fellow countrymen tackle every year in vain the problem of falling a remedy for seasickness mr Dess emers idea was to secure a quiet haven of ret rt in the midst oi of the vessel at sea ea where the voyager might remain and defy me sickness with ease and dignity his HI plans ill at began to take shape in 1861 though they did not arrive at the point of ot practical experiment until fire five year years later he ile perceived early that the no tion of gaining steadiness by huspen ion slon of ail axis aa so in the chip a lamp lamps or compass w would bild lild not tar tach the ccpas ie iii ly menus of if its suspension on a double axle axis retained in a horizontal plan place it nevertheless rises and falle falls with the pitching of the vessel 1 hence in applying the princ pie to a saloon it was necessary to go 50 to the middle midd le of it the b e ships hip length where the pitching to I 1 practically nothing and to the middle point of her breadth also where there Is little or no motion free y suspended object objects suh as pendulum pendulums besin begin to oscillate whenever neTer their point of suspension Is I 1 moved the transit of the passengers pae engen to and fro would produce motion and the action of the wind on the ides sides of the 1 would cause the tame gains effect wr M bessemer bell believed eved tuat lost be he bad overcome these difficulties difficult lea by the application ct of hydraulic power the hydraulic power was certainly arranged with extreme ingenuity and the large ealon salon weiguang wel wei guing tone tons and suspended la in the midst of the ves eel could be moved with a touch in order to make room for the ealon salon the engines and boiler boilers were moved from the usual places which they occupied in the old paddle piddle steamers tean irr to points on either aide side fore and aft of the salon and duplicate sets of boiler boilers and en to kine gin provided in order to abort en the dreaded channel voyage the hydraulic ision wai wag not the only ingenious device which wa was depended upon to keep the aalon salon steady the crept speed of the abia she was wits expected to attain very high peed speed al it kaough in practice the speed never exceeded knots as trusted to di d minimh the pitching and she was given a low freeboard forty feet long at each end the effect ot of this freeboard so it was belle cd ed would be to cut the waves ship part cf them on the low deck and so balance the veisel vessel the bessemer Bee semer inaugurated her first i trip to calais by smashing the old ca 1 late pier the hydraulic steering gear falling to act at a critical moment a and a d a as a a matter of fact the hydraulic appliances for steadying the salon were not cot tried the real reason being that they were not finished subsequent experiments peri ments were equally unsatisfactory the swinging salon did not behave at sea in the same way is the steam rocked model which had been studying on land r comparatively calm water which still might have elou enough gh swell to be unpleasant it woud not act at all moreover the boat waa was really loo large tor for calais harbor her iler fate was sealed by the bank of the company that owned her aad in 1876 she the was sold by order of the liquidators the buyer removed the nalon salon and its lt machinery discard ed the hydraulic steering gear and built the freeboard to the level of the rest of the deck in this thin commonplace guise the old bessemer bad had a career and only differed from the less stuffy c channel hannel boats bests in having four paddle wheels instead of two record |