Show THE the file tribune same weeks since published the performance of it A small english cratt craft called the tui biala I 1 which aich on its trial trip ran at the rate rif of thir ty eight miles an hour instead of the ordinary screw propeller the power pomer la is produced by driving with great force steam against the blad blades of turbines abl in tight cases something lh lri ill like electric fans on the Turbin lnla la there aro are three of these turbines and they are attached directly to the propeller shaft the philadelphia record has haa a condensed account of some exper export t opinions regarding nir it mr Thony craft tho the water tube boller boiler man after hating lion charles algernon parsons the designer of 0 the Tur binia lnla upon her ter wonderful record pointed out that her ter unparalleled speed m was as more lemat kable than appeared at first sight prof ewing of cambridge who VI vas as at arat a skeptic spent a week on the vessel and among other things after making many tests and experiments said that the absence of complicated machinery made the engineers duties very light in fact there was as nothing but a steam atop valve and a reversing valve that had to be handled in twenty seconds after afler starting from a state of rest the steam turbine engines were more working at a rate of 0 tn only eight knots an hour there was no vibration nothing but a hum from the fans this indicated a possible revolution in the machinery to ships the only two points left in doubt are first at what nhat expense of steam 1 Is 14 4 this power obtained compared to that required by the ordinary screw and second tan can it be applied to ships of any size it looks feasible and gives an idea of a great simplification ot of the present complex machinery of a blila |