The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-01-17

our present form OF hull, the power to
drive a high-speed ship increases as
something more than the cube OF the
speed.
1t takes 2o.O00 horsepower to drive the
st. Paul at 20 knots an hour: il would
take over 70.G1 horse power to drive her
at 80 knots an nour. But on her 2S-foot
draught the ST. Paul could not float the
engines, boilers and coal necessary TO
produce 7o.000 horse power
II We are ever To build 30-knot ocean
steamer the problem must be attacked
from the standpoint both OF the motive
power and the hull or form. In the one
case we have to keep down weight. in the
other wave making, and in this cOnnec.
ton our thoughts are carried at once -
the high-speed automobile launches
which have been making phenomenal rec
ords during the past year.
If it should become possible to apply
the straight-line. speed-lauch model. with
notifications. Of course, to the transat-
Iantic ship. we could avoid much OF the
MATCHMAKING which is inseparsble from
the present form OF hull. and consumes
the greatest part Of the horsepower
Again, should it prove possible 10 build
the gas engine in units OF the great size
that would be required for ocean service.
We could get rid at once Of boilers and
bunkers. and Of a vast amount OF weight
per horsepower which must nov be
charged to the cumbersome reciprocatiug
steam engine.
AIR NAVIGATION.
The interest in aeronautics has prcba-
bly, been greater this year than ia sew
eraI previous years. in which the per-
Torrance OF the cfrigible airship. Judged
from the purely scientific standpoint. tire
ae-oplane has special attractions FOR The
savaut. and many Of The discussions #
scientific societies have been devoted q
the advantages OF particfIia- typc-a fact
which IS 10 be credited to the Theoretical
mechs meal possibilities Of the aeroplane- .
and to the fact that il conforms In pTin-
csrIe 10 the practice Or nature as seen
IN the soaring o. birds.
Il must h. confessed. however. that
the aeropIane experiments q TIRE past
year have been sadly Disappointing. ard
the ability to msinfain equilibrium and
10 arrest Eight and reach the gr0ura
The more easily controlled airzhip appeals 4
far more 70 the undertaking e the say-
man. particularly when Il Is remembers
with what ease Santos Dumout navigate
The air. approaches his apparent through
& Paris boulevard. taxes lunch reas- 4
cends. and perhaps thez visits The race I!
course AZ LonEchaups with precision IS i
exact as T. he were operating al auto 4
mobile TIE navigation % he air has 4
always appealed pa-t5cussrly 10 TIE 4
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and The large prizes offered. Al The 50 4
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terest IN zeronaB;fas IN thls co9r'Ty. i
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achievement cErfrg another pear
STEAM TURBINES.
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