Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1898 — Battleship Models. [ARTICLE]

Battleship Models.

By the Admiralty’s orders perfect models are made in paraffin wax of every new English battleship before it is laid down, and these models are tested in a tank at Haslar. The models are from twelve feet to twenty-four feet long, and the tank is 400 feet long and twenty feet wide. The models are made of wax because it is a material which does not absorb water or change its weight, so alterations can be easily made. Also the material can be melted up and used again.