Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1920 — Height of Sea Waves. [ARTICLE]

Height of Sea Waves.

The records of average height la feet observed at sea are approximately equal ts half the velocity of the wind in statute miles per hour. For those occasions on which the wind baa had as full opportunity as it ever enjoys ot doing its work, direct proportionality still holds good, bat the constant is higher. It has been found that seven-tenths, best satisfies the available- observations between a strong breese and a whole gale. The name simple proportion, however, does not hold when dealing with the heights corresponding to the gentlest breezes. The highest waves finally formed are those traveling at a velocity which is equal, within the error of observation, to that ot the wind.—Brooklyn Magi*