Turbine Engine.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 243, 22 October 1901, Page 3

Turbine Engine.

Lieutenant J. W. Graydon, late of the United States Navy, has, after many months of study and" patient experimenting. invented a turbine engine which he confidently believes will revolutionise locomotion both on land and sea. It is claimed for the Graydon turbine engine that it can be constructed for one-half of the cost of a modern triple expansion engine, and will occupy about a quarter of the room. A great amount of bewildering machinery which prevails to-day on board ship will be eliminated. Coal bunkers will make way for meat and handy oil tanks. It is stated that a company composed of influential men is being floated with a capital of £2,000,000, and that experts from the big steamship companies have already inspected the engine and are favorably impressed. The speed which the Graydon engine will give to ships is stated to be more than 40 knots an hour, and its inventor is confident that vessels will be able to cross the Atlantic in three days ! Such minor conceptions as turbine army transports, ambulance, artillery and despatch motors are matters, it is said, which will lresult {tom the adoption of this new engine.

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