A WINGED BARGE.
ii -.l ii' .i'"^ 'y<:,miMJt ) PRiQPELLE^ JN., nm AIR J>OR ,- .'*"BHAId_OW WATERS. PARIS', August 15, Comte Bertram! de Lesseps, who recently, made a successful run of 320 miles from Paris to Lyons m a motorcar driven by a wing propeller, has now applied the' *ame? niflthod of propulsion to, a 100-fooit. barge ,A ,t'WOrb|aded propeller, designed on the principle of the action of a \jkd_ wing by'ty. JJ'ljpp}^ vyas' alVachccl to a shaft at' the, ijeay df/the oar. Th-3 rotary action was transmitted from the motor to tlie propeller shnjt by a system, of cog Avheels. ' ', -'■- Ntiiy '."fche..'.' motor . and wing propeller have bean fitted, into a 270-ton bar^e on' the '-river ' Shone at Lyons, says the 'arid the experiments l have oiven i ; j;esults. -The : barge was driyip^ at at i speed of ty m|les an \\W\ aga'ihat the ''cu^r^t. a'flcl %£ ssyen ipiles aii hi>pr ■$jyh : streAhlt * r '
The value of this means of propulsion to vessels which navigate m places whero the shallowness of the water precludes the use of the submerged propeller is at ones apparent.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12883, 2 October 1912, Page 11
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182A WINGED BARGE. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12883, 2 October 1912, Page 11
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