NEW INVENTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8387, 25 March 1907, Page 5

NEW INVENTIONS.

A DEADLY WEAPON. LONDON, March 22. Sir Howard Vincent, Conservative member of Parliament for Sheffield Central, announces that the Hadfield Steel Foundry has introduced a new projectile which will pierce any armour. FOR SEALING MAIL BAGS. ADELAIDE, March 23. Mr Morley, of the Taxation Office, has invented an effective contrivance for closing and sealing mail-bags. Its adoption would save the Commonwealth between £10,0,00 and £15,000 , spent annually on wax and string. GAS AS A MARINE PROPELLANT. NEW YORK, March 22. Mr Nixon, an American marine architect, has patented an engine, worked by petroleum gas, which he 1 :: claims will enable a ahip to cross the Atlantic in four days. LONDON, March 22.

The Vickers-Maxim Company have invented a system of driving warships with gas, obviating the use of funnels, thus giving all round fire. (Presumably, the meaning intended to be conveyed is that, funnels not being in the way',' the guns of warships will have an all round fire. The advantage claimed by the other inventor is that his gas engine will reduce the Atlantic trip to four days. The Cunarders Ivernia and Saxonia, with 2,000 passengers and 1,000 tons of cargo, now do the trip from Liverpool to Boston in a little over five days at an average speed of 21 knots or 25 miles an hour. The Cunard Company intended to have running by the summer of this year 25-knot boats, claimed to be the largest and fastest in the world).