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Show I Scheme Never Worked Out When you are taking that ocean trip and your stomach is defying the law of gravitation, ponder over Sir Henry Bessemer's plan to put an end to seasickness. sea-sickness. Seventy years ago he proposed pro-posed a vessel equipped with a salon suspended from an axle fixed in the ship's center. He planned to affix counterweights to the bottom of the salon, so that the floor of the salon would always remain quiet and horizontal, hori-zontal, despite the tumbling about of the vessel itself, says the Iron Age. Why he never gave the idea a fair trial is not reported. Perhaps he bought stock in shipping lines and figured that the expense caused by the increase in food consumption per passenger, owing to elimination of seasickness, sea-sickness, would cut heavily into profits. |