Science: Deep Dredge

John Cosgrove Williams is a short, chunky, grizzled engineer who talks a lot about God's Infinite Plan and the Balance of Nature. Born 50 years ago in England, son and grandson of engineers, he took an engineering degree at Liverpool University, got a job with a London firm for which he built railroads, bridges and power plants in the East Indies. In 1909 he emigrated to California as a free-lance technologist. During the War he designed ships in Seattle.

Engineer Williams looks to the sea as the Mother of Life, as a great reservoir...

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