Comments on: “Boat Tunnel” for Harbor Crossing

By: Modern Mechanix articles from 40-80 years ago - Cruisers & Sailing Forums

Modern Mechanix articles from 40-80 years ago - Cruisers & Sailing Forums — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:35:48 +0000

[...] Finally going through more pages there… Check out this alternative to the Golden Gate Bridge… “Boat Tunnel” for Harbor Crossing [...]

By: Charlie

Charlie — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:55:42 +0000

That thing is really cool looking. However the word in it’s name you left out is FIXED I have no problem with a bridge/tunnel, it’s the floating tunnel part that scares the bejesus out of me.

By: Odon

Odon — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:51:20 +0000

Reminds me of the Oresund Link.

http://homepage.mac.com/billcr.....index.html

By: Blurgle

Blurgle — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:20:35 +0000

I think if you have an apartment in a luxury tower *and* a country estate, you can’t be said to have not profited from your work.

By: Stannous

Stannous — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:53:21 +0000

The designer’s obit:
Cleve F. Shaffer, an inventor and somewhat of a prophet, who saw into the future but did not always profit by it, died on October 27, 1964, six weeks before his 80th birthday. He lived at the Fontana Apartments luxurious tower in San Francisco and he developed “Tai Shan”, his country estate near Los Gatos, California, into an astonishing showplace.
He was recognized by “Janes Airships”, the authoritative British journal, as the leading aviation figure in the United states in 1911.
He foresaw the tank, the bazooka, and the moving sidewalk, though he failed to win fame from any of them.
Mr. Shaffer concentrated on the airplane and the rocket. He made his first solo flight in a glider under the instruction of Professor Montgomery, on December 23, 1907, and his first solo flight in an airplane, on December 17, 1910, at Palo Alto, Calif., in a field near the Bay. He was a member of many organizations. He was one of the first five members of the International Planetary Society, honorary President of the San Francisco Soaring Society and founder of the National Tank Defense League. He wrote a book “The Idiot Hope In The Night” and he had two exhibits in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C.
Surviving him is his sister Mrs. John C. Parsons of San Francisco.