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Show 1 MACHINE SEEMS I TO MAKE WATER J SLIDE UPHILL Invention Promises to Harness Energy of Rising Tides for Man LONDON". July I A wsfer-Uftlo jaratus which noems to flout tho natural law that water cannot run uphill, and by which the tremendous. rgy of the rlslnjc tides may be neaae rdfor use. by man la an In- entlon of Thomas Q. Allen, gradu-(. gradu-(. W.-shlnKton university. 8t. .I now a British subject. The Hydrautomat;" as tho apparatus Is called, la the result of two years of . xperlmonts. A working model has been viewed by eoare of engineers, some of whom have been baffled by tie simplicity of the cyole of operation opera-tion It has lifted water 20 feet aboo the rivor level. The hydrautomat Is designed to iter In any quantity rom a running stream to any desired height . thout the use of standard equlp-men; equlp-men; such as pump, rams or water-wheels- TNF,S NATURAIj power, The apparatus harnoaaes two nat-ufal nat-ufal poures of energy, tho weight nf a column of water and atmospheric pressure. By means of a aeries of tanks, one above Jho other, and a sluice-gate which alternately brings lion and pressure forces Into plnv, per cent of tho energy of the pres-.ui pres-.ui o',r used Is obtained. The -ht required Is vrached by carrying car-rying the series of tanks, alternating .in and closed chambers, together id air conducting pipes, to the de-ilred de-ilred height. It is believed there Is unlimited ops. for the hydrautomat on streams where hydraulic power developments i i not feaalble because of the small mount of fall. One of the first applications ap-plications Is expected to be on Irrigation Irriga-tion projecta. STREAM HOISTS ITSFXF. In a broad sense. arroYding to the ayentor, the purpose of tho hydrau-W hydrau-W 1 1 :- lo convert the contained en-' en-' rgy of largo quantities of water at a low head Into that of a smaller tuantlty of water at a high head or to compel a stream to hoist part of itself up over tho land for commor-( commor-( Uil or agricultural purposes The, principal Is fixed: the nppllcatlon Is to be determined by local requirements. require-ments. World patented rights have been -sued. II appears that In the world's inventive re-cords ;ho prlnc'ple of hydrautomat hy-drautomat has been remotely approached, ap-proached, but never attained. i nfh |