THE INVISIBLE AIRSHIP.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 288, 25 November 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

THE INVISIBLE AIRSHIP.

WONDERFUL NEW INVENTION PATENTED. Patent rights have been granted to Baron Adam Roenne, a resident of London, in connection with a wonderfa) invention by which the day of the invisible airship is brought upon us. '1 hough the airship is to be much longer than tho leviathan liner Olympic, vet at a height of 1,500 feet it will lie detected with the greatest difficulty, and at 3,00(1 feet it will be absolutely invisible, though less than a mile away. AA hen an aeroplane is a mile away, it must be remembered, the buzz of the engines can be heard, so that, were no attention devoted to motors, the whereabouts of the novel airship' might bo detected even when the vessel itself was invisible. Bin silencing devices now common with best motor-cats will be utilised for tho engines, thus assisting the designer in his scheme for tho production of an airship capable of self-obliteration. The inventor is Baron Adam Roenne, well known in England as an-airship and naval engineer. The main principle upon which tile invention is based is the equalisation of light and shade. The cover or envelope of the airship is made of chromium, a metal possessing a highly-polished surface, which is perpetually retained by ;a covering of trasparent varnish. Therefore the metal is equivalent to a mirror, and it ’< by reflection that the invisibility obtained. So that there will be ne reeuning shade shown on the button! of th<- keel, this v.ill taper to a point By this means the airship will always take the colour of it« surrounding elements. and be invisible. The device, says the '‘Standard.” has been submitted by tho inventor to the officials nt Greenwich Royal Observatory, who declare that it is thoroughly scientific, am! certainly practicable.