AIRSHIP LIFTED BY RADIO

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 75, 21 December 1937, Page 13

AIRSHIP LIFTED BY RADIO

Engineer Says Gas Will Not Be Needed Gaant airships of the future, independent of any kind of gas, may be lifted into the air by wireless waves. Mr Denham Verschoyle, of Barnes, London, a mining engineer, is sure that this will happen. He has spent 30 years experimenting with apparatus which has performed with small objects exactly what he says may be done with airshipS or streamiiued air tanks of the future. Propellers, Mr Verschoyle predicts, will be abolished, and the only engines needed will be those for gsnerating electricity to follow the line of tho electrical force, which is very much liko a wireless beam. So powerful are the waves that tho laws of gravity will not count, and airships or even motor cars will be propelled along at anything from 600 to 800 miles an hour. "What seemingly more impossiMe thing did there seem tj be at one time than televisiou by wireless," said Mr Verschoyle to the Daily Sketch. "If. may be that the fate of the airship rests upon something less imposjible than television seemed only 20 years ago. "After all these years' work on inrestigating the matter by practical exteriments, I think it is safe to say that now only the cost of the experiments stand in the way of introducing to the aeronautical engineer a lifting foree that will do away with planes and the use of hydrogen or helium gas."