In the early days, water speed records were held by steam-driven craft with conventional, full-displacement hulls, such as Nathanael Herreshoff’s Stiletto, which set a 26.2mph record in 1885.
State Key Laboratory of Structural Chemistry, Fujian Key Laboratory of Nanomaterials, and CAS Key Laboratory of Design and Assembly of Functional Nanostructures, Fujian Institute of Research on the ...