Employs principle of curving baseball; spinning cylinders distort wind currents; resultant driving force ten times that of same sail area; maneuvering simpler than with sails; inventor predicts use as auxiliary to engine drive.
Flettner's sailless ship explained
Power
Power ; 60 , n 27 ; p 1054-1056
1924
3 pages
7 Figs.
Aufsatz (Zeitschrift)
Englisch
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