Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — A New Motor. [ARTICLE]

A New Motor.

A queer craft has just made its appearance in the bay at Sau Francisco. It is a wave motor designed to propel itself as a boat and to furnish power for other machines when drawn up to wharves. The inventor is Paul Bribtensteln,'stage carpenter in the Macdonough Theatre at Oakland. Brietenstein spent S6OO and many months in constructing the machine in Oakland Creek, aud brought it out to try it on the hay. It certainly propelled itself. What else it will do remains to be seen when the harbor commissioners give him permission to fasten Ills engine at a wharf and try it on machinery. The wave motor lias side wheels and consists of two flatbottomed, double-end scows fastened together bow and bow by a hinge. When tiie scows rock in the waves the motion is communicated to a lever, which in , turn •loves a flywheel, completing the “nioThe peculiar craft is forty-two feet •ver all, nine feet in beam, drawing but six teed inches.