The "New York Times" adds: "The most serious criticism of the new however, concerns first the question of their reliability and second their machinery arrangement. Many officers feel that metallurgical Progress has not kept pace with the advance in steam engineering and that it is doubtful whether the equipment of the new. ships will stand up under the high temperatures over a period of time."
The question here at issue is the use of superheated, super"pressure steam in the turbines of the new warships. Pressures of 600 or more pounds end between 650 and 850 degrees of superheat have been used in the vessels thus far completed. Several, however, have developed
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