WIND PROPULSION.
NEW ERA IN NAVIGATION. REVOLVING CYLINDERS. London, Nov. 3. The “Daily Telegraph’s” Berlin correspondent reports that trials of a vessel constructed by Krupp’s in their Kiel yard herald a new epoch in navigation. The vessel i s propelled by wind by means of a device reducing the cost of working by 50 to 80 per cent compared with ordinary sails. Instead of masts there will be two metai cylinders, Which rotate at the rate of 100 revolutions per minute, on the magnus principle, yielding a driving power fifteen times greater than any linen sal!. The inventor is Anton Fletcher, who made the famous aeroplane rudder. There is a guarantee that the invention U not a hoax or a fantasy, as the Ham-burg-Amerika line has interested itself in the matter. The invention was previously tested in the aerodynamic laboratory at the Gottingen University. —(A. and N-Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 278, 4 November 1924, Page 5
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147WIND PROPULSION. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIV, Issue 278, 4 November 1924, Page 5
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