Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-04-22 | Page 2 | Automobile Built to Travel on Ice

AUTOMOBILE BUILT TO TRAVEL ON ICE Inrentor Hrpacta toi Invade Frozen :irorti:ttlslIaw,Tieu- - '.: , jaoallto.' ; . -i- ;EW TORK, April 22-The pneu' j mosllto haa been invented to conquer , the froaen north. It la a sort f an lea automobile and Inventor' J. B.J MacDuff of SI Linden street Brooklyn, declares' It will mala twenty milea an hoar, against : the fiercest, sale - that ever", raged.; It has been tested and found to. be the real thing in up-to-date 'autos. The pneumosllto is the propeller of the" jnachina MaoIuff believes Cnnly in; his new device. MacDuft's machine is about 'twelve feet long and four feet wide. A ,tiny threequaTter-horae-power'gaadllna engine en-gine furnishes the motive power. The pneumosllto ia not unlike the or-dlnary or-dlnary propeller placed In the rear of j naphtha launches. The wheel Is four j feet in diameter and the blades are ln-cloaed ln-cloaed ia a band of steet twelve inches ' wide. The bladea of the pneunroslito j are about sixteen inches wide and pro- I pel the boat by beating against the air. j They are set diagonally in the wheel of ' the propeller. :