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...faint to be coming from a gasoline motor proportionate to the craft's size. Men on the deck were observing a smokeless stack that rose amidships, a cylinder 3½ feet in diameter and 9½ feet high. The stack was revolving. The vessel was a U. S. rotorship-the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rotoring | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rotoring | 7/6/1925 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Science Notes, Mar. 30, 1925 | 3/30/1925 | See Source »

...rotorship Buckau, first of its kind, set sail from Danzig for Leith, Scotland, with a cargo of lumber. The voyage is to be the first commercial test of this new type of wind-propelled ship. Its trip from Kiel to Danzig to take on cargo was productive of conflicting reports: some said the Buckau went by her wind; some, by means of her auxiliary engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rotarian at Sea | 2/16/1925 | See Source »

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