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Lieutenants Joseph M. Kiernan and W. W. Hastings, students of naval architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were the rotorists. Working with discarded materials, they had constructed a craft that differed from the original rotorship of Herr Anton Flettner of Germany (TIME, Nov. 17, Dec. 8, Mar. 2), in two respects: Where Flettner's R. S. Buckau had had two rotor cylinders, the lieutenants used but one, believing they thus avoided a detrimental interaction; where the base and top disc of the Flettner cylinder had revolved, in the U. S. design it was stationary. The motive principle...
Simultaneous with the nativity of rotoring in the U. S., the gigantic Count von Luckner, famed German sea-raider in wartime, declared he would spend two years circling the globe in Herr Flettner's Buckau, "to make rotorships known in all countries...
Press reports declared that Anton Flettner, inventor of the rotorship (TIME, Nov. 17, Dec. 8, Feb. 16, Mar. 2), was about to erect a windmill on a tower 650 ft. high with two arms, each 150 ft. long...
...Anton Flettner's Rotor Ship (TiME, Nov. 17)?or Sailless Ship, as it is more commonly called?has set the scientific world agog. Early reports were entirely misleading. There is no question of capturing the energy of the wind by means of a windmill and transmitting this energy in electrical fashion to an ordinary type of propeller. The invention is at once more simple in mechanism and more recondite in principle. Imagine the Flettner ship broadside to a natural wind, with its huge cylinders rotating in the same direction as the hands of a clock laid flat on deck...
...Inventor Flettner, when he had completed his dumbfounding of the mariners, discussed his craft. Said he : "My invention is bound to revolutionize not only navigation, but also the generation of power in every line of industry." By means of the Flettner cylinders, he stated, anything from a flour mill to an electric power-plant could be driven, at a fraction of the present cost of coal or water power. He is now negotiating with the Good-year-Zeppelin Co. with a view to equipping airships with the device...