Some experiments made on the Seine recently with a remarkable automobile boat of a new type yielded surprising results. The boat is described as a “slider,” from the fact that it really glides upon the surface of the water, leaving no wash whatever, and not through the water. With a motor of fourteen horsepower the extraordinary rate of speed of eighteen miles an hour was reached on a measured kilometer. The boat is 19 feet 4 inches long by 9 feet 9 inches broad and is described as a “launch,” though her shape is quite unusual for that class of boat. Along the keel are five inclined planes, the pressure upon which when the motor begins to act lifts the bottom of the boat to the surface, Count C. de Lambert is the inventor. The motor is a Dion.
Sistersville Daily Oil Review, Sistersville, WV, April 3, 1905