New Turbine Motor

NEW TURBINE MOTOR

Inventor Says It Can Drive Big Ships Fifty Knots an Hour.

  Across the Atlantic in three days or less, a revolution of modern naval warfare and unheard of speed for the largest vessels afloat is what William Werner declares he has made possible by the invention of a new turbine motor. Fifty knots an hour as the minimum of speed for vessels like the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse is what Mr. Werner believes his invention will accomplish.

   Mr. Werner lives in Brooklyn. He is a civil engineer and an inventor. He has a working model of his new invention that drives a small boat through the water at terrific speed and seems to bear out all that he claims for it. When seen at his home the other night by a New York Herald reporter, Mr. Werner explained that he had not applied for a patent for his device yet because he is under contract with a foreign government not to impart any information concerning his invention.

   After having failed to interest American shipbuilders Mr. Werner says he sought assistance abroad to have his invention applied to some large steamship, which  involved an expenditure beyond his means. The fact of his discovery having come to the knowledge of naval officials of a country which Mr. Werner refused to name, a confidential agent of that government was Bent to Brooklyn to negotiate for the purchase of his secret.

   Mr. Werner says that when his device is used steamship propellers will be reduced one-half in size, at the same time gaining enhanced power of propulsion. His invention, he says, has a capacity of 25,000 or 30,000 horsepower, and he is certain he can attain a speed of fifty knots an hour.

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