Omaha daily bee., 1906-11-25
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Intcrcst'"v study In Marine
ArchItectGFe.


Both in Europe ana Amert,a there will be
celebrations next year to commemorate the
centennial Of steam navigation. Here the
exercisea will center about the name Of
Robert Fulton, whose Clormont on the Hud-
son proved for the first time the COM
Smercial practicablllty OF the steamboat.
The European celebration will be a worlds
fair, held at Bordeaux, France, for II was
in Frapce that the American inventor con-
Quoted those experiments which made the
triumph Of the Clermont possible. The
fair viii be known as the International
Maritime exposition, and will be opened
on May /, 1907. II will show the many
and laborlous steps by which the steam
ship has been evolved out OF "a mere play
thing into one of the mightiest factors OF
modern civilization.
At the same time, however that the
historian turns back 100 years 20 Fulton's
boat, and figures out that it would take
3.SSS Clermonts TO equal the 5000 horse
power of the Kaiser Weihelm II. one Of
the fastest and most powerful ships a..oat.
yhe nautical engineer is looking ahead to
the kind of craft which still another CEN
tury will produce. The recent launching
II the twin Cunarders, the Mauretania
and the Louisiana, many shipbuildlng ex-
"
steam navigation which in the year aO7
may produce ships almost a. superior 10
the Kaiser Wilhelm IL 20 Is this crack
liner OF today to the pioneer ''vaper vessel
Of 1907
According to the inventor, the turbine en-
gines with which the Mauretania and the
Lusitania are being equipped are going u
frevolutiopize the steampshIp of the future
Although these Cunardsrs are guaranteed
TO exceed the speed OF any vessel in the
Atlantic service, and at an average speed
Of twenty-five knots an hour are expected
TO make the voyage from Queenstown e
New York in four and half days vel
they are not regarded as having reached
anywhere near the ultimate limits Of th'
shipbuilder's art. The Hon. G. A. Parson
from whose designs the turbines OF the new
Cunarders were built, predicts much faste
craft in the near future He says that
thirty-knot transatlantic liner is entirel!
practicable, and It is rumored in British
shipping circles that IL Germany should at
tempt to build turbine steamships &
eclipse the new Cunarders England is pre-
pared to subsidize the construction Of
couple Of "thirty-lnotters"
On a ship Of this speed the New Yorke
could leave New York City Saturday moo
and set foot in Queenstown Wednesda
l. morning at 10 O'Clock. or. II the ship con
tinued at the same rate Of speed to Ply
mouth and he took the London express, h
could reach the British capital In time 70
supper that evening.
The Problem of Fuel.
Were it not for the question of coal sur
lLsly MIR. Parsons says. a transatlantic line
could easily be built which would travel a
fast as the Turgnia, the British turbin
torpedo boat which made thirty-five knott
or forty statute miles, an hour. A torped
boat, however, Is a short distance racer.
IL all lungs and muscle. 1t carried onl
enough coal on an average to so 100 mile
on the other hand the Transatlantic line
must provide fuel for voyage OF so
miles. Each slight increase in the speed {
such a vessel means a much greater col
sumption OF coal. The faster the ship Il
bigger It must be.
For example, the Mauretania, TO ohtal
"a speed one and one-half knots faster tina
the 23lk-knot Kaiser Wilhelm IL Is beir
built with eight more furnaces six mo
boilers 5000 more square feet Of boil
heating surface and $1,000 more horsepowe
II is 7s1k feet longer, sixteen feet wider fO'