REAL OCEAN SKIMMERS
In an age during which a gearless motor-car has been evolved and rain precipitated by bombing clouds with electrified sand, there is reason to respect a report from Budapest that young Hungarian inventors have demonstrated a new device for propelling ships at a much greater speed with the same horse-power rating, says the Melbourne "Age." Before a group of experts a model with a device described 'as a spiral cylinder substituted for the propeller attained a speed of 135 miles an hour. The inventors calculated that if the spiral cylinder could be used in the Queen Mary, which normally cruises at about |28 knots, a sea speed of 94 miles an hour would be reached. They have asked permission to place the model at the disposal of- the German Government.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1938, Page 4
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133REAL OCEAN SKIMMERS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 79, 30 September 1938, Page 4
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