Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1893 — Wind Power. [ARTICLE]

Wind Power.

An interesting note in tho Electrloian on wind power says that some years ago an attempt was made, under the auspices of the Due de Feltre and M. I. Vigreux, to drive the dynamos at the Pointe do la Heve lighthouse by wind power. The wind, however, as is its oustom, blew when and where it listed, and ended one fine, or rather one stormy, day by overthrowing the ungainly apparatus installed on the exposed headland. M. Max de Nansouty, in alluding to this attempt to harness the wind, suggests that the next time a similar attempt is made it would be as well to try the effect of surroundiug the “atmospheric turbines” bf strong towers, ana directing the wind onto the vanes by nozzles in much the same way as tho water is directed onto the buckets of a Pelton wheel. This Idea of “canalising” air currents is, it is said, actually engaging the attention of windmill experts.