Hydrofoil
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...first hydrofoil vessel was built in 1905 by the Italian engineer Enrico Forlanini. In 1918, Alexander Graham Bell built the HD-4, a vessel 60 ft (18.3 m) long that attained a speed of 70.86 mi (114.03 km) per hr. See C. Hook, Hydrofoils...