THE ENGINE OF THE FUTURE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 3747, 5 October 1886, Page 3

THE ENGINE OF THE FUTURE.

As a. matter of fact, it would be far bettor and infinitely cheaper for English shipowners, onco they devote their attention to liquid fuel, to send one of their staff to Baku to exnmino tho various systems m use and start from tho final point attained by Russian practice, than to design furnace* ' out of their own heads.' It should b» clearly understood that what is being dono with liquid fuel m Russia does not represent merely tho ideas of Urquhart and Lentz, as Admiral Selwyn sought to imply, but the best qualities of tho eighty or ninety inventions that have been made m England, Amorica, and Russia, improved upon by constant practice. If George Stephenson were to return to life, and were osked to design a locomotive, he would not go back to tho Rocket, but would start with the latest types m use. Yet English shipbuilders, instead of starting with the lateafc types of liquid fuel furnaces m vogue m

1 j Russia, appearjdisposctl to favour this ov the ; ; other Rocket of somo European inventor, ■ ! whose practical knowledge is confined i \ perhaps to only a furnaco or two constructed I j for experimental purposes. — Engineering.