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Show Powerful Water Jet The fastest man has ever travel d on land, somewhat better than 2t miles an hour, Is exceeded by tie speed of the water jet that drives tb s wheels in the now liig Creek plant of the Southern California Edison company, com-pany, says Popular Mechanics Magazine. Maga-zine. Palling 2,"()() feet down the mountainside moun-tainside through a big conduit, the water jet, passing through nn 8',4-ini h pipe, strikes each bucket of the whoil.s with a velocity of -oo miles an hour, exerting an impact force of CO.Ol'O pounds. |