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Will makes waves.
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COAL WAVE
An artificial wave bearing a large shipment of coal will reach this district of the Ohio Friday. The wave was started Tuesday at Dam No. 11 by Major William P. Stokey, U. S. Engineers. Several fleets of coal are moving the river on it.
An artificial wave bearing a large shipment of coal will reach this district of the Ohio Friday. The wave was started Tuesday at Dam No. 11 by Major William P. Stokey, U. S. Engineers. Several fleets of coal are moving the river on it.
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This is one of a series of newspaper and magazine items over the years about Will's work for the Army Corps of Engineers. You can find the whole list here:
WILL'S ARMY CAREER
Formerly I was putting the whole list in each of the pages of the series, but there got to be just too many to continue with that.
2.
I found an article about artificial waves for coal barges on jstor:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/26261294.pdf
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/26261294.pdf
The article was in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society in June 1921. It says in part:
The artificial wave is started at either Dam No. 11 or No. 12 about 180 miles
above the mouth of the Kanawha. The first dam is partly opened and the
water is allowed to pass until the stage above is from 1 to 2 feet below the normal
pool level. The bear traps at each of the following dams from No. 11 or 12 down
to No. 24, just above the mouth of the Kanawha, are opened about 1 hour later
than at the dam immediately above, the last dam being opened about 15 hours
after the first one, and the pool level being drawn down 3 .0 feet. The bear traps
at the first dam will be open only 2 or 3 hours but the last dam will be open from
16 to 24 hours. An interesting phase of the changes at the dams is that within
a few minutes after one dam is opened the water begins to rise above the next
dam below, which is from 10 to 20 miles farther down the river. As the water
cannot possibly run through the pool in such a short time the rise at first must
be due to some pressure effect.
The next article in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has nothing to with the Stokeys, but I am including it in its entirety anyway:
CUMULUS CLOUD OVER BURNING TULSA.
On June 1st during the race riot in Tulsa a stationary cumulus cloud was observed over the north part of Tulsa from the station at Broken Arrow. It was the only cumulus cloud to be seen from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and was caused by a large fire set by the mob, in which the entire negro section, known as "little Africa" was consumed.—J. A. Reihle.
This is one of a series of newspaper and magazine items over the years about Will's work for the Army Corps of Engineers. You can find the whole list here:
WILL'S ARMY CAREER
Formerly I was putting the whole list in each of the pages of the series, but there got to be just too many to continue with that.
2.
I found an article about artificial waves for coal barges on jstor:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/26261294.pdf
www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/26261294.pdf
The article was in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society in June 1921. It says in part:
The artificial wave is started at either Dam No. 11 or No. 12 about 180 miles
above the mouth of the Kanawha. The first dam is partly opened and the
water is allowed to pass until the stage above is from 1 to 2 feet below the normal
pool level. The bear traps at each of the following dams from No. 11 or 12 down
to No. 24, just above the mouth of the Kanawha, are opened about 1 hour later
than at the dam immediately above, the last dam being opened about 15 hours
after the first one, and the pool level being drawn down 3 .0 feet. The bear traps
at the first dam will be open only 2 or 3 hours but the last dam will be open from
16 to 24 hours. An interesting phase of the changes at the dams is that within
a few minutes after one dam is opened the water begins to rise above the next
dam below, which is from 10 to 20 miles farther down the river. As the water
cannot possibly run through the pool in such a short time the rise at first must
be due to some pressure effect.
The next article in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has nothing to with the Stokeys, but I am including it in its entirety anyway:
CUMULUS CLOUD OVER BURNING TULSA.
On June 1st during the race riot in Tulsa a stationary cumulus cloud was observed over the north part of Tulsa from the station at Broken Arrow. It was the only cumulus cloud to be seen from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. and was caused by a large fire set by the mob, in which the entire negro section, known as "little Africa" was consumed.—J. A. Reihle.
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