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Show THE TYPHONOID. "Typhonoid," a word derived from a Greek term meaning whirlwind, has been applied to a new typo of boat invented by a French engineer, who seeks to do away with the present-day scrow propeller. The now screw is placed at tho bow of the boat instead of at tho stern, and it is believed that by it the centrifugal' displacement and tho central void of the present type arc converted into benefits and the limit to the advantageous advan-tageous increase in velocity of rotation rota-tion of the propeller is removed. The apparatus is designed to work by suction in the manner of a waterspout. water-spout. The inventor figures that his boat, with a 32V-inch screw, will go through the water at a rate of more than Cyi miles an hour. |