AIRSHIP LIFTED BY RADIO

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 11 September 1937, Page 10

AIRSHIP LIFTED BY RADIO

GAS WILL NOT BE NEEDED Giant airships of the future, independent of any kind of gas, may be lifted into the air by wireless waves. Mr Denham Verschoyle, of Barnes. London, a mining engineer, is sure that this will happen He has spent 30 years experimenting with apparatus which has performed with small objects exactly what he says may be done with airships or streamlined air tanks of the future. Propellers, Mr Verschoyle predicts, will be abolished, and the only engines needed will be those for generating electricity to follow the line of the electrical force, which is very much like a wireless beam So powerful are the waves that the laws of gravity will not count, and airships or even motor cars will be propelled along at anything from 600 to 800 miles an hour. “What seemingly more impossible thing did there seem to be at one time than television by wireless,” said Mr Verschoyle to the “Daily Sketch.” “It may be that the fate of the airship rests upon something less impossible than television seemed only 20 years ago. After all these years’ work on investigating the matter by practical experiments, I think it is safe to say that now only t) : cost of the experiments sta .1 in the way of introducing to the aeronautical engineer a lifting force that will do away with ’planes and the use of hydrogen or helium gas.”