The Winslow mail., 1899-02-11
4 TaREE-PROWED SHIP.
i Salt Lake Mans Invention Which
May Revoiutionize Ship
building.

There is wonderful mechanic and
inventor here in Salt Lake, Mr.. Leo 5.
51itahead. He has invented a gun
which we cannot speak much about
low, because it is, in fact, q govern
rnent secret. Suffice it to say that if
what is hoped for is realized it will
mean another step toward making war
impossible, because of its awful de-
-fcuctiveness. 1t will cause desire on
tae part Of ali Aguinaldos to compro-
mise inside of seven and half minutes.
hat is. it will. if at the end of tie
seven and a half minutes after it opens
he remains in condition to express his
desires.
Dut another of his inventions is what
the writer has been looking for since as
boy he tossed orange peels overboar3
and saw them keeping up alongside
with the speed of the ship for mile
or two, thus proving that the ship
was carrying with it dead weight Of
water equal to, perhaps. the weight of
the ship and cargo. Well, Mr.. White
head, noting that when the beak Of a
ship strikes the water it always pushes
q column of water out in front, which
may be described as a buffer which the
ship in motion, is perpetUaily buffeting
against, went to work to see if that
could not be neutralized. The result
is that he has made the model of L
boat and has tried it to make sure that
he IS not crazy and is satisfied which
he believes VIII result giving most
OF the power 81 the engines to the speed
OF GIG bOUtI or GHG GngHo2 10 mc abtcd
of the ship. and not exhausting half of
it in overcoming the obstruction of the
water made by the ships momentum.
We cannot give very lucid descrip-
tiOn-for the mechanical part of the
writer's education, like the rest, was
greatly neglected-but, in homeIy
terms, his beat has three prows; the
main one in the center. and one on
either side, like a triple catamaran.
Between the center beak and the two
outside beaks he works two screws
upon the dead water, beating them
down and back. and leaving clear way
for the ship. The three keels run in to
two near the center of the ship, and
these continue to the stern, and there
between the two is the main driving
screw of the ship running on the cush
ion OF water made by the two Eeels.
Mr.. Whitehead has also invented his
own propeller, and his trial boat works
like charm. He has made CT the sane
size models of his craft and Of the bat
tleship Massachusetts. When the ma
chinery of both is started his boat runs
20 times its length before the Massa-
chusetts gets under way at all. His
idea is that two-thirds of the energy
of ships engines is exhausted in over
coming the Instructions which are Gre
Eted by the speed of the ship, and that
with these removed and all the force
being given to the ships propulsion a
ship that now makes 20 knots would,
with the same power, make between
so and GO knots, or would run from
New York to Liverpool in say two days
and sixteen hours. From San Francisco
TO Manila would require less than
eight days; TO round the world, 25
days, allowing for the slow time by
rail across our continent. If this can
rot all be realized, still it is possible
that by the principle he invokes and the
trials that he has made the invention
viii eventuate in ship that will make
so knots as easily as 20 knots are now
made. and reduce the voyage from New
York to Liverpool to four days, and
that possibly our new warships, instead
of making IS knots. will cover 25 knots
an hour. By the way. this is about the
FIRST radical change in the model OF
ships since Noah started out on the wa
ters with his life saver.-Salt Lake
Tribune.