Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1918 — Electric Ship Has Future. [ARTICLE]

Electric Ship Has Future.

The electric ship is no longer a dream but a reality and I should not be surprised to find, within a few years of the close of the war, every new vessel of any size driven, steered, stopped, reversed of turned, merely by the pressing of a series of buttons on the bridge, says a writer in the Electrical Times, London. The application of this principle will enable ships to be run with the highest efficiency at an even speed, permit marine engineers more liberty of design and yield proportionately greater cargo space than the present cumberous form of machinery allows.