GERMAN INVENTION.
NEW ERA IN NAVIGATION. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON, Nov. 2. _The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph reports that the trials of the vessel constructed by Krupp’s m their .Kiel. Can ah yard was heralded as marking a neAV epoch in navigation. The vessel is propelled by wind by means of a device which reduces the cost of working from 50 to 80 per cent compared with ordinary sails. Instead of masts there will be two cylinders, which rotate at the rate of 100 revolutions a minute ou the magmis principle, yielding a driving power fifteen times greater - than any linen sail. The inventor is Anton Fletcher, who made the famous aeroplane rudder. There is a guarantee that the invention is not a hoax or a fantasy, as the Hamburg-Amerika Line has interested itself in the matter. The invention was previously tested in the aerodynamic laboratory at Gottingen University.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 November 1924, Page 5
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