Word: flettner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years inventors have been trying to make the wind generate electricity, but with no commercial success. Three years ago Julius D. Madaras, Detroit Hungarian, persuaded six power concerns that he could succeed by adapting a Magnus rotor such as carried Anton Flettner's sailing vessel Baden-Baden from Hamburg to Manhattan (TIME, May 24, 1926) and lifted Harold Elstner Talbott Jr.'s hydroplane from Long Island waters in 1930. The utilitarians gave Designer Madaras $104,000 to build a demonstration rotor at West Burlington, N. J. Last week he showed them that it works...
...increased pressure (lift) on the bottom. If the motor should quit the rotor continues to spin in descent, the lift force stretching the plane's course into a long glide. Unconsciously Designer Hatlestad had employed the Savonius windmill principle.* His scheme is not to be confused with the Flettner rotor or recently publicized paddle-wing rotorplanes, both of which involve power-driven rotors...
...survivors-eleven men-were of the S. S. Baden-Baden, once famed as the rotor ship invented by Anton Flettner (TIME, May 24, 1926) but since converted into an ordinary Diesel-powered cargo carrier. Bound from Riohacha for Tumaco on the west coast of Colombia with a cargo of salt, the vessel had become disabled in heavy weather. The cargo shifted, the ship listed heavily to starboard, shipping water faster than the disabled pumps could pour it out. She foundered less than a half hour before the Pan American plane sighted what remained of the crew of 16 (five...