Show aver the alps by water that most wonderfully useful of all the s servants of men water ater which seems to have been discovered as such only in very modern times and which is now accomplishing marvels undreamed of a decade or two ago has just been set a new task in little switzerland at which the scientific world Is again opening its eyes in astonishment so writes H G hunt ing in the technical world magazine A tube or rather two tubes full of water are to be made to lift and lowe owe boats burdened with an international commerce over oyer the most formidable mountain range of europe the alps actually the liquid element Is to pick up the loaded craft in italy and to deposit them in germany by its own natural power without the use of propelling machinery balancing the waters of df the mountain lakes against each other ether italian engineers propose to create a new road for commerce which will become almost literally an artery of world traffic with an ebb and flow that will draw and push the currents of trade back and forth like the beat of a great heart feeding the veins of two nations it Is a most re enterprise and the method by which the teat feat of taking boats over the mountains Is to be accomplished Is an extraordinary invention |