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...marvelous sight. Floating straight from shore toward the Gulf Stream, more than five feet in diameter and more than one mile long, a vast shining serpent lay upon the water. It was a serpent made of heavy, corrugated steel tubing-the deep-sea section of the pipe which Inventor George S. Claude of France had been laboring more than a year to lay, and through which he planned to draw cold water from the ocean bottom for a revolutionary seapower plant. A shoreward section of the pipe had been successfully laid the fortnight before (TIME, June 23). The seaward section...
Rich and patient, Inventor Claude was not discouraged a few months ago when heavy seas crumpled the pipe he was sinking to fetch his cold water to the surface. He set to lowering another pipe. His last week's despatch to his colleagues said that this pipe was now laid...
Seated in a steel sphere Explorer Beebe and Otis Barton, inventor, dropped 1,426 ft. into the sea, 1,076 ft. deeper than the record. On the sphere's outer surface was fastened a dead fish. Through thick windows of fused quartz the divers could peer out at deep sea creatures, lured near by the fish bait, never before seen by man in their natural state. So great was the depth that only the blue and violet rays of the sun's spectrum penetrated, yet the submarine scene seemed brilliantly lighted compared to the gloom of the diving...
...Inventor Otis Barton-Harvard graduate (1922), onetime Paris art student, African big game hunter-last year de-signed and built a diving ball which proved too heavy for any practical hoisting equipment. The present, successful model weighs two tons. The diving "bell" de-signed and operated in the Mediterranean with some success by Inventor Hans Hartman (TIME, Aug. 24, 1925) is cylindrical in shape with a rounded top, stabilizing propellers and a detachable sinker to be dropped in case of trouble. Barton's diving ball presents a minimum surface relative to content, hence has less pressure to withstand. Added...
Died. Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 69, inventor of the gyrocompass, airplane stabilizers, ship stabilizers, a 1,500,000,000 candlepower searchlight and many another instrument; founder of Sperry Gyroscope Co., Sperry Electric Co., Sperry Electric Railway Co.; chairman U. S. Naval Consulting Board's Committees on Aeronautics, Mines & Torpedoes, aids to navigation; after an operation for gallstones; at Brooklyn...