Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-11-18

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length, TO carry 30, 900 passengers Il. 'he >pe'u
If 100 miles per hour, finds lis, for the present.
utterly incredn!ous-not because We entertain.
.Lo ;joo that such achievements are beyond
tho mower of the human mind, but because the
explanation, a. We read it in a report OF a lecture
d,I;vcrcd by the inventor himself, explains no
,b;nc OF course, with time, money, iron and
hands, a ship 1000 feet long could be built
What of that? How is that vertiginous speed
Of 100 miles to be impressed to the Great Mon
ster? Bv six pairs Of paddlc.wheels-is that
the discovery: would then II pairs give aspecd
or 900 miles: Well, then, as the ship is 4,ooo
| feet in length, put as many pair as can be ilt'ea
along her sides, and she will, perhaps, cross the
Atlantic in two or three hours instead OF thirty
two hours-a feat which, it is said, the great
Buffalo ship is to perform.
HUNDRED MILES An HOUR.
REMARKABLE RrMoK-A NAV sTEAHIR EN!kkrhisE.
'Mr Willard Fillmore, eS-Presldent OF 'ne .il'r" s'nt'',
has jus; addressed i letter 10 Mr.. l;oilil ''efihn'n, assins
III, In explain al 4 hubble meeting the principles OIL winch
. M ,n,.niinu. Inventor believes he can build u steamship
witch viii make a hundred miles an hour, ANA whose s'rehs'h
will resist the fury Of the ocean, anu even the shceh 0, i
,,,i,i,u with other vessels. When this steamer Is !adth
with passengers, freight, provision and coal 10Y ! foyafe
around the world, She will only draw AZ .he mos VEN,
two feet OF water, and-a singular iact, inueen -thee expense
of the voyage will be only about one-hi'h "has u "ouiu % =
in tie steamers now aiioat. For thirteen years MI. lsoIii
G.rma!n has been secretly studying his ne" system OF me
ch,uisrn and huilIinr. and eminent engineers in the United
states have assured him tina, his discovery Is destined L"
iulse an epoch In The hi-'ot! I" ''"" "a''s"'''"'
fourier Gts Eats trI".
IT,. f,,,. +. that MI. Fillmore, together with many other
citi.rl : of Buffalo, signed 4 request that MIR. GERMAN Mould
rxnI,;r In ,.i,lIc lecture, his extraordinary proposition -
q / i -, y. IA invention and discovery. u is Elru 10
t.Ii.y, luuy In the scheme Of Mr.. Germ.in, but !, can 10
no h.trm TO hear hir.-timsricam Rdd'rHy Hsrit'c.
The lecture called for by the american
Railway Review" was delivered i'll Buffalo,
We copy Il report Of the lecture from the pa
prrs OF that city. Some people will say 1t is
worth trying, but the cost Of the trial, fifteen
| millions. is worth fifteen millions! and this
will, 10 doubt, mar the prospects OF this con-
;c,nrlai"d lcyiatLan. If we add 10 this that
the C;rca, Eastern is Il failure in point of speed,
and that her size is her only excellence above
all ships. it is not very likely that the Anerl-
can CAPITALISTS will be- in a great hurry to con-
,truc, another "rnovcablc tunnel in a spirit Of
rivalry hitherto unknown among that kind OF
| folks. a.. who will sink the greatest amount Of
money in the largest enterprise with the greatest
loss.
NJ. German said that vessels that were very
lo,g were stronger than shorter ones, and that
lrnsth produced SteadineSs. The oceanic forces
ave not to be yielded to, but are to be over
come. We can set their utmost force n de-
:iaucc.
He showed how vessels were and could be
DESTROYED by being exactly on the top of one
1 wave, the weight lracturing them. Others
I would bc fractured by having their ends rest
| i'm: OF, two waves, the support Of the water
| having zone from the centre. In both OF these
cases they would break in L single fracture. 49,
I Bn, a vessel resting OF a number oil waves
vouli have so many points Of support that She
could not be broken except hV Il combined
fracture. From this lie argued that rs much
! strength was not necessary III Il long vcSSc! rs
in 4 short one. Bat to put it beyond the reach
of doubt. the long vessels could he built strong
| or than the Great Eastern.
In the picture shown, the vessel was 10 he
+ onn feet in length. At each end, the vessel
had a formation like y Tin for five hundred feet,
which was continued along the side like 4 RIB,
imrarting great buoyancy to the vessel, and
/ immense stiffness and strength, The huoyancy
or the fin and rib was estimated at a lifting
mower Of %, 900 tons. The rolling OF the YES
sci could not take place, therefore, without The
immense displacement OF millions oil tons OF
the water by the movement Of these larger ms
or ribs, which arc to be each 20 feet wide and
3u0O feet long. The side fins Of fish were given
them to steady themselves with, the tails beng
the motors, and this was the object Of this fin
or rib, He gave q scientific description Of the
mowers of water in motion, illustrating it with
drawings.
The fins, he also stated, were of another I'M
pnrtant use besides that Of huoyancy and
strength. for the purpose Of surface condcnsa-
ton. The fins or ribs of Mr.. Germans vessel
are to DC of iron and constantly under water,
and constantly kept cool by change Of position.
BIZ discharging the steam into these ribs or
fins, it is Immediately condensed and by pumps
conveyed either warm or cold, back to the
boilers. The steam would be discharged into
Il vacuum, and il would thus fulfill ali the use
Of the condensing engine. The amount Of con-
densing surface in each Of these ribs would be
that of an iron room 90 feet wide, 10 feet high,
and 8. 300 feet long.
This vessel, with n speed Of loo miles an
hour, would throw water out Of its track only
at the rate of three miles the hour The up
ocr part Of the boat is made sharp; the pilot
house and pipes present 4 sharp edge to the air
so as TO offer as little resistance as possible
Such n vessel as he propoScs-4,0 900 feet long
displaces 4O, 1000 tons-has a capacity to carry
u 5000 tons of freight and passengers. The
machinery will weigh % 600 tons. There would
be no greater amount Of horse power required
proportionallv than the Great Eastern has,
With this twenty-five thousand tons machinery,
we would get 3O0, 600 horse power.
Mr.. G.. then proceeded to demonstrate that
il was in our power TO attain the speed he
claimed and with economical use, and called
attention to the results obtained in extending
the range of guns and cannon, The range Of
the rifle has been extended from sixty rods TO
about a mile. The Armstrong and the French
cannon have many times greater range than
the old guns. In his conversation with militia
nv men, they agree that this increase is due more
to the formation Of the ball than anything else.
His vessel would have twenty-five acres Of cabin
floors. Bear in mind, says the speaker, 1t is
the commerce Of the world VIC are after. II
would be 80 feet wide; promcradcs may he
made six or seven hundred feet long. The
s,ate.roomS should be ten feet square, the sa.
loon fifty feet or more square. Such n boat
could stow away 81, ZOO passengers, and yet
have plenty of elbow room. At the speed con-
templated she could cross the ocean in a day
and a quarter.
Mr.. German thus describes how economical
" the vessel could be built. Iron being the
natcrial, there were but five forms of iron
work in the whole construction of the vessel,
ard ,hccc so easy of manufacture that they
could be got out by the simplest machinery.
In the construction of the vessel, he pro.
poscd an outside vessel of iron plates GO feet
long and one inch and a half thick, rolled so
that tie grain of the iron would be at right
angles with its length, within which was an.
other vessel, about n foot from the outer one
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