Tuesday, December 06, 2005

USATODAY.com - Flying kites... under water

USATODAY.com - Flying kites... under water: "Flying kites... under water
By Richard O'Mara, The Christian Science Monitor
ANNAPOLIS, MD. — For Tiffany's, Philippe Vauthier fashioned a gold chalice for Pope John Paul II, and a brace of gold-trimmed derringers for a Virginia historical society, which somehow wound up in the possession of Gregory Peck. That was in another life, as they say, one he left behind after he won a patent for an underwater turbine he designed to harvest energy from ocean tides and the flow of rivers. Though he disdains the word, he is an inventor."

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