| Show although the sanguine popular writers aho vho tie have babe to find unexpected wonders wonder in every cery new thing to make IL a place for or their articles predict nn an im ine meduno diato reo revolution lution in marine propulsion 0 follo following xing the perfection ot or the diesel engine the revolution itself has been rather slow in materializing the diesel battleship la Is apparent ily ly still an achievement ot of tho the distant future and as tor for the diesel a airship which the germans are reported to halo haie invented this engine Is neLea rily much heavier than th the 3 Ea casoline soline engine it may safely he be put on tho the shelf with nith that other pseudo german wonder n a gas with ith three times the tha lifting power of hydrogen an and d 11 a absolutely b s non inflammable elih chich is now used need for floating tho h lillei disei lisei 9 s zeppelin warships the diesel engine Is however corn ing to be used more and more in smaller naval vessels particularly sub marines most of the latest and largest of these are propelled by diesel engines some of them develop as much as 2000 horse horsepower larger craft of 0 this ti pe are said now nov to be under c con 0 n Ft ruction in which diesel engines of f 1000 horsepower will be installed A number her ot of destroyers and boist de bense gunboats gun boats have also alo been th diesel motors tho the engine is in use to some extent in motor tank vessels acting as tenders to warships how far it will nill eventually go in displacing the engine for marine propulsion is still a nery ery uncertain question new york saturday evening paiit hobt |
