San Francisco
The City That Has Fallen
The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was the Katrina of its day. Commentators the country over held forth on what The City meant. Perhaps the most stylish of these was The City That Has Fallen by William Marion Reedy, a St. Louis editor who’d never seen the place. I ran across it in a slim [...]
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 [...]
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