wave power
Primary Sources on Wave Motor History in California
As you can see, I’m still researching wave motors, particularly their development along the California coast line at the turn of the century. I’m particularly interested in the pods of inventors in San Francisco and Los Angeles from about 1890-1910.
These 11 men each had at least part of a wave power patent assigned to him [...]
Introducing the Inventing Green Wave Power Patent Database
Beginning in the middle of the nineteenth century, people started trying to invent machines that could transform the force of the waves into useful mechanical power for driving machines. Given the success harnessing river power and the relative lack of horsepower availability outside the big industrial cities until the turn of the century, inventors had [...]
What the Inventor Saw (“May Revolutionize Labor”)
Harnessing nature is a little like harnessing God.
Or so the following article on the Reynolds Wave Machine would have us believe.
Written back in 1907, it has one of the most stupendously purple intros you’re every likely to see for a science and engineering story; it’s actually a bit like Wired circa 1994. I’ve transcribed it [...]
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