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SCIENCE, MECHANICS, INVENTION 677<br />

NON-CAPSIZABLE AND SELF-DRAINING SURF BOAT<br />

A new life-saving surf boat has been invented by a citizen of Long Beach, California, and is li ly to be adopted by<br />

city lor its beach service. The craft is sixteen feet long, 40 inches wide, is non ca; izable and is self-draining.<br />

is equipped with air tanks the full length of the cockpit and on all sides. It<br />

can take the breakers broadside. It is propelled by a double-bladed paddle,<br />

much like those used by canoeists. The buoyant qualities of this boat make<br />

it capable of keeping twenty people afloat at one time<br />

GETTING UP IN THE WORLD WITH AN AUTO<br />

At this California wireless station<br />

Much work has to be done at the<br />

top of them. Horses never are safe<br />

elevators; they are apt to drop<br />

dead or run away when a man is29 1 ts each 300 fe<br />

)<br />

leet up. Now to make the ascent<br />

safe an automobile is used. The<br />

steeplejack sits on a little board,<br />

the car is started slowly out across<br />

the level ground, and the man is<br />

[misled easily and safel\ to the top.

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