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Potash from Kelp : J. W. Turrentine and Paul S. Shoaff describe the experimental plant of the U. S. Department of Agriculture at Summerland, California. (Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, vol. xi, pp. 864–874, 1919.)


Book ID
104122205
Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1919
Tongue
English
Weight
167 KB
Volume
188
Category
Article
ISSN
0016-0032

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CURREXT TOPICS. 841

bines for the surface, by which a speed of 24 knots was obtained.

The problem of caring for the funnels was successfully solved. These vessels had electric drive while under water, and a Diesel engine to use in the act of submerging or of emerging.

The claim is made that the British produced submarines with greater speed on the surface and also under water than the Huns had, as well as more heavily armored craft.

One monitor submarine carried a twelve-inch gun.

Among auxiliary craft are fast fleet oilers, carrying 5000 tons of oil, speed 15 knots. Aircraft carriers were made from merchant ships. Of these the Argus had flush decks and long horizontal ducts to discharge the smoke astern.

G. F. S.