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...proposal to sink a deep shaft ten or twelve miles into the crust of the earth is not new. It has been advanced from time to time in recent years. Frequently it has been coupled with a proposal to tap the interior heat of the earth for industrial purposes...
Last week, it was renewed by Sir Charles A. Parsons K.C.B., F.R.S., at a luncheon tendered him by the Engineers' Club of Manhattan. He suggested that the shaft be sunk purely in the interests of Science with no prospect of pecuniary profit. He suggested that it be twelve miles deep, and calculated that it would cost about $100,000,000. The expense of this huge undertaking he would have borne by those all over the world who are willing to contribute to the interest of Science...
...poet Shelley. It is to be a figure of Prometheus, exceeding 180 feet in height, greater in size than the statue of Liberty in New York Harbor, represented as in Shel- ley's poem* unbound, bearing fire to man. The idea is further expanded by making the shaft, against which the figure stands, into a lighthouse which will throw its signal light far over the Tyrrhenian sea, whose treacherous waters were the poet's grave. The site is not precisely the part of the shore where his body was found, but a much finer one, a mile...
...that in that city an association of leading engineers had been formed to erect (in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution) a great museum of engineering progress in transportation, and industry. The prize design may be chosen for Washington. It differed from all others in one feature. The great steel shaft over the central portion of the 'building made an integral part of the design, and might be useful as a mooring-mast for aircraft or radio purposes...
Palestine. Prof. R. A. Stewart Macalister, continuing his excavations at Jerusalem (TIME, Dec. 31), found a cave with a shaft leading down to a spring, the significance of which was explained by Prof. James A. Montgomery, of the University of Pennsylvania. It was part of one of the most amazing engineering triumphs of ancient times ?the water system of Jerusalem. In the reign of David and before, this very arid region was believed to have been wholly dependent for water on the Spring of Gihon, near the base of the hill on which the ancient city was built. Pumps...