A new mode of travelling has lately been invented, which the inventors claim to be applicable to any mining country where flumes exist, or which may be used wherever a stream of water of sufficient velocity of current can be enclosed for suitable distance.
The device involves a carriage driven entirely by outside power; and, paradoxical as it may appear, it can travel either in the same direction as the force, or diametrically opposite thereto, while the direction of application of the power remains unchanged.
In short, it is a carriage which travels up stream, impelled by no other force than that of the current.
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Oh hello good sir, we are going north! It appears that your cart vessel is going south against ours. However shall we correct this problem?
I think whoever dreamt this up doesn’t understand the power in water.
It takes 4" of fast moving water to drive most cars off a road.
Good point!
Not great for areas prone to droughts
So like everywhere now
yep
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