A WONDERFUL INVENTION.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 317, 5 December 1906, Page 1

A WONDERFUL INVENTION.

TOt SAIL- A 'BOAT A i ; -;GflEw.' ;.- J Senor Leonardo Torres QiiflYedo, tho in ve'ntor of- ,the '-'TeleMho," ,'?n el^rical japparatus -for. directing -tf rora Had : the movements of. vessfels .at^' sea, *hp is riow in Bilbadi-was^sked-.by I^i»g Alfonso to. make '^xperfmen^s- withj'iis invention from th^ GlroWa.':^Cie apparatus was placed-^Jsh board tha ' Eoyal yacht, and Quoen ; 'Vie{oria, l '''\yho had not :scen the Telekinp bbforfe followd t'neitrials with great ..lnjeresfc" Her Majesty told : -£tie inventor' jtbat' movements she Iwishcd the boat -^rßiaiWe, .->n3 Sc — nor ■QHe.'-edo, caJTyinif'pDt her inetrac-' tions, caused th"&^o"raft- to tnrn pr."sftp witW. admirable Taciiity,: finally 'ths ccafi was brouglit alongsi.deithe Gotlda, jancl their^MaJestics' ppnpratnl^fed the engineer on his invjntiqnV - ■ i;/' As tha boat, is niade.tp n;9rk-3ut<^a-ticaljy, and tdoes.'Sibt jraiiy cMw, there is a .risk.'thalt if •.tie-transroitiShK . appajral-us hecomoSj damagedrfhe vessel would continue^ '-its course without^i- ' rectipn: The- lriyentqjr has'.^cbrdirigly adde*d another automatic arrangement which, "comes": int»> actiijn Hertzian: ' currents co jses, ' and . tie bolt, to stop. *f/ . \g - r Nfcw, os Seiior/- Qnex'edcacr informed King Alfonsoj' hVls about tai carry out experiments' on a i-ast scnle^ith - Vessels of-larg^-tonnoitc. ' Wb&vtKe Tele- . kino, boat was alongside tteAGlralda his Majesty wont on>bo,>rd; s a^,-jecei-?ed from the engineer^ detifled^aescriptSca of the appar-itas../ Sexijir, Torres Qilevado he'ioves th.-ifc'he l^s. tho problem of ,the dtroctipn" oi-^crpedtes, oubmersibjes !from -iapd:" If Jiis further <ei :po> imenis areWrowlned «ithsuccess his" invei)tjicn.,jiv-ill^3usp a revolution in ■t l i<*£mii;tary -arid naval arts, as" he; will bV abla .'tci^direct movements of .engines of . \rtSfa re .'tiffin a dIH-inoe. and c'a.uso trie e3tpfbsion?-of mines and .torpedoes \vith mathematical precision. '. •*". •■ •