ONE HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 43, 14 November 1907, Page 4

ONE HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR.

AN INVENTOR'S MARINE MARVEL. At the moment when the Lusitania lias crossed the Atlantic in a fraction over five clays an inventor lias come forward to claim that his machinery would have enabled her to complete the voyage in something under three. Mr. F. Mallmann. of Chelsea, has olVorod the invention to the Admiralty, and he claims that if it is accented the Dreadnoughts of the future will go over the water at a speed of 100 miles an hour. . ''Tlio ship," ho has assured a "Daily Nows" representative,' "that was fitted with my invention would not only ho the speediest, but also the steadiest. All the mechanism of the propellers, which is very heavy, is ' on the keel of the ship, and as a result she can neve,- roll. Sho would he on an Bvon keel in the roughest sea. "The engine may be described as similar ill appearance to a turbine, though in action it is quite different. "Steam from any type of boiler will drive it, but I am experimenting with a new kind of power that will be less cumbersome than steam. "The engines drive a shaft, fitted along the keel of the vessel, and carrying live propellers. These will revolve about 6000 times in a minute, and the ordinary propeller would be useless for my purpose. The terrific speed would result in the formation of a partial vacuum, and half the propeller would never be doing any work". "Accordingly the'three blades of each propeller, instead of being fitted to radiate from one hub, are fixed at intervals of two foot along the shaft, and each group of thrco hlntlos is of slightly larger pitch than tho group ahead of it. "The vessel will not bo nhle to have any funnels or masts, for going at 100 miles an hour they would be in the way. "Forward (he ship would be fitted with my mechanism to create a vacuum in tho waters that she was about to enter, so that, they should ofl'or as little resistance as possihlo to her passage. "I have a small boat sixty feet long fitted with my invention, and a small machine develops iOS horse-power. This has done trips at » spend of 100 miles nil hour." It may he added (hat Mr. Mallmann is of Gorman parentage, and that he first offered his invention to tho Gorman Government. As they declined to pay the security of 850,000' marks that he asked as deposit before revealing tho entire secret, he has now oll'erod it to tho Biitish Government, askim* n security of £000,000. The Admiralty's decision "is not yet known.—"Pall Mall Gazetts."