Company is having installed on the Empress of Asia a new invention which, it is claimed, will revolutionize the existing system of navigation as well as reduce the distance between ports and decrease the amount of fuel consumed. is invention, which is known as the Brown gyroscopic compass, has already been installed in most of the Atlantic steamers of the Can-adion Pacific, and it is now intended that all the Empress boats shall have them. The gyro-compass is a new invention, although owing its origin to Lord Kelvin. Only during the last few years, practically since the war, has its wonderful utility been generally recognized. At the present time there are only three makes of this compass, a German, an American and a British. The Brown compass is the British and a representative of the manufacturers has arrived in- Hongkong to make the installation on board the Empress of Asia.
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