Word: flettner
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...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...
...negligible; but-greatest marvel of all-out of its superstructure reared two incredible cylinders, 65 ft. high, which twirled and twirled. Harnessed, by some obstruse mechanical slight, to the wind of their twirling, the ship moved through water. It was the sailless ship of Herr Anton Flettner. Before it acquired its two incredible cylinders, it was cumbrously propelled by 500 sq. yds. of canvas...
...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...