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| File Name : MAGPUMP.ASC | Online Date : 10/13/95 |
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| Contributed by : Jerry Decker | Dir Category : ECOLOGY |
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The following is from a document I received several years ago from an unknown
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source. The article is from the January, 1966, Popular Science magazine and
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I only have one page, but the gist is well stated. I think it is very similar
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to the 'caterpillar drive' that was used in the movie, "Hunt for Red October".
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Silent Sea Engine for Nuclear Subs
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by James G. Busse
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A magnetic pump with no moving parts, this simple device
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may propel our submarines silently along the ocean floor
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In the silent world of underwater warfare, the slightest noise can bring
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sudden death to a submarine. The electronic ears of the enemy can detect
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conventional engines and screw propellers as far as 100 miles away. A
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computer intercepts the sounds and directs a deadly homing torpedo to their
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source in minutes. How do you go about maneuvering a 3,260-ton nuclear
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submarine without making a sound? Two medical researchers at St. Louis
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University's School of Medicine may have found the answer - a revolutionary
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undersea propulsion unit dubbed the "sea engine."
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The interesting phenomenon upon which the sea engine is based was first
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observed in 1964 by Alfred W. Richardson, a physiologist, and Sujoy K. Guha, a
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young biomedical engineer from India. The two men were looking for a method
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of simulating the flow of blood through the human body. They tried various
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types of mechanical pumps without success. The pumping action was too
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irregular.
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While investigating the effects of magnetic fields on weak salt solutions
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similar to blood, the two researchers stumbled across an interesting fact:
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They could make the electrically charged atoms in such solutions move in one
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direction by applying a magnetic field in just the right way. Then they made
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a second important discovery: The moving atoms dragged water molecules along
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with them so that the entire solution moved.
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Richardson and Guha suddenly realized that they had the makings of a new type
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of pump. They quickly assembled an experimental model and found, as they had
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expected, that the device really worked. Their "pump" consisted of nothing
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more than an unimpressive collection of junk-box electronic components. Yet
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the instant they connected it to a source of electrical power, a weak salt
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solution inside it began to move.
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A number of tests were made and new models were constructed, some of which
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permitted very accurate control over the quantity of liquid being pumped, and
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others which made the liquid move in a series of pulses, duplicating the
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pumping action of the human heart. Amazingly, the pumps could move a variety
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of liquids - including ordinary tap water - without difficulty.....
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