Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-11-07 | Page 32 | A New Torpedo Invention

I A New Torpedo Invention lIE French rench i and Russian navy de departments departments dos C have adopted a II newly In Invented Invented invented vented turbigo motor for their tor torpedoes torpedoes which It Is claimed gives their ship destroyers a n tremendous advantage Ild over o er the torpedo craft of nations using the older types of machinery This tor tors torpedo torpedo will develop de elop and lasts SO 80 seconds during which time the torpedo is driven through the water a Ii distance of feet Tho The engine when started its horsepower in two and a half hall sec seconds tha rapidity with which the ma machine machine machine chine gets to work being described by naval experts as almost U terrifying This new torpedo motor uses petroleum or gasoline A supply of compressed air is 1 t f needed In the torpedo torp do and with this the fuel is sent in a Ii fine spray into the com combustion combustion combustion bustion chamber through many tiny holes which pierce the electric igniter Compressed air is sent ent Into the combus combustion combustion combustion tion chamber and aud mingles with the gale gaso gasoline line Une and the combustion that follows de tremendous power that drives the new rotor motor at speed Water cools coots off the turbine and much of or the water boils off ot before the engine ceases ce ses sesto to drive the torpedo With this new machine which is given the name of or the Lemal turbine a 11 tor torpedo torpedo torpedo craft can use its weapon at a range exceeding a n mile and at that distances it will hit bit or miss its its enemy en my in just Jl about t tone one minute Thus T us the t e new motor would permit torpedoes to be tired Prod at the rate rat of a mile mUe a minute a pe d never hith hitherto erto achieved and which even eren a short a s while back bael as the h merican War would have hare been considered impossible All torpedoes now used DS by the first class navies nades are alike as regards the section of ot the weapon which explodes and sinks an au ship The TIle difference In values S now consists in the tho sort sott of motor which sends the tho th tube talle along to meet set the doomed vessel Certainly if It the he French French and nades actually pos pea possess pasSO sues sess SO 8 a n driven art ati claimed by the admirers ef of the new Lemale emale motor it means a big increase In n the power of ot these navies as regards under underwater water fight lag ing in the future fut re 1 R