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Show ANOTHER TIDE MOTOR C. H. Brooks, inspired by the faci that the tides move with an irresistible irre-sistible force, has invented a tide motor which he believes will put the waters of Puget sound to work for the Tacoma municipal power department. The machine consists in part of a floating platform with gears that revolve re-volve against the cogs of a vertical shaft as the Incoming tide lifts the platform and a second set of gears that revolve likewise against a second vertical cogged shaft as the outgoing tide allows the platform to descend. This motion naturally Is slower, but a shaft Is made to revolve with great rapidity through a system of accelerating acceler-ating gear wheels. |