Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-05-18
"A AIR SHIP
NJ. De Baussett Is SO Sure or h
Eihcacy or His Plan That He
Has Laid Out the Route for the

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IN Boston, proposes TO 'federate the
world by a scheme of aerial navigation
that seems to combine at once the widest
flight of scientific reality. In all it's
practical details, the great problem Of
modern times, according to M. de
Baussett, is already solved. He says in
the Pjttsburg Dispatch:
On June l intend starting on a voy-
age OF discovery to the north pole and
Arctic regions, travelling in my new air
ship. A months time will suffice for the
voyage to and from the pole, allowing
ten days or two weeks for scientific OBJ.
servations of Arctic phenomena. The
air ship will be capable Of carrying 200
passengers, and among them | hope to
number, besides representatives Of the
press, accomplished observers and orera-
tors in such branches Of science as
astronomy, geology, hydrostaiics, by
geometry, photography, etc, with such
instruments and apparatus as they may
wish to carry. The Arctic Explorer
will bc built and equipped under the
auspices Of the TrGnscontinental Aerial
Navigation company, Of Chicago, III.
"The STARTING Will be from New York
city, and the route will be IS follows.
From New York 10 Philadelphia, Wash
ngton, Toledo. Chicago, Omaha, San
FYonsisco, Y,ddo, Pekin, Constantine.
| pie. ROME, Paris. Berlin, Copenhagen,
: o%ckholn, 81. Petersburg; from tins last
city erect. via Norwceia, Iceland and
Greenland, 10 the arctic regions. The
Stopping al each place will be one hour,
to take on the scientific commission, hay
ing subscribed at least three months be
fore the 10th of June 1889. At Paris and
st. PETERSBURG we shall stop twelve 10
twenty four hours TO take on subscribers
and an additional supply Of water pro-
visions, etc. Subscribers will please send
their names and addresses. with the place
chosen by them for embarking. Each
subscriber To the building fund TO the
amount of 81, 600 or over will be entitled
10 passage for himsel for representative.
A receipt for the amount subscribed will
be forwarded with the round trip passage |
ticket"
M. de Bausset discards balloons for -ea-
sons analogous TO those which induce
electricians to dispense with the galvanic
cell after they have invented the dynamo.
The new air ship will be built wholly OF
metal, and the ascensional power will be
gained by a vacuum instead Of by means
of hydrogen gas. A balloon rises, as is
well known, because Of the superior hight
ness Of the hydrogen 1t contains as COM
pared with the same volume OF air, the
ascending power being determined by the
difference in weight between the two vol
umes; SO that the less the gravitatirg
tendency OF the contents of the air ship
as contrasted with the same volume of
air, the greater will be the force Of as
cent, and, as a vacuum represents an alb
solute lack OF gravitating tendency, 1t
will also, the inventor holds, represent
the highest possible degree of ascensional
power. This use Of a vacuum as the
means of ascent involves an immense
pressure on the exterior OF the receptacle,
but NJ. de Bausset regards steel plates
"A Of An inch in thickness as perfectly
capable of w%itbstanding the resultant
strain. Ii is, moreover, not proposed TO
completely exhaust the air vessel, but to
use a certain ,n}uGn; of air with a view
10 diminish o.. much as possible the
external press. r., $50 TO admit or eX-
clude air as q means Of vary ing the eleva-
ton Of the air vessel.
Comparatively few people" says DE
Baussett, understand how and why q
balloon weighing from one pound to 100
tons is able tC rise III the air. Ii the
weight Of the air be as above sta ed, then
81 cubic meter Of air will weigh nearly 1.3
Kilograms, or u quart Weighs 81 grains,
or ID cubic feet of air weighs neatly one
pound. Hence If we take "A hollow
sphere Of 10 meters in diameter, each
meter Of its surface weighing two kilO-
grams ncarly 33 feet diameter and weight
Of surface ouUCes to the square FOOT
We shall have, traDsla'ing the French
measures INTO their English equivalents.
the following: Spherical surface. 1888
feet; weight, 1885 pounds; volume. 49,,
$50 cubic feet; weight Of air it displacts,
l,4924 pounds; atmospheric pressure on
the surface, about 1876 tons; and the
weight Of the gas, which IS fourteen
times lighter than air, 1921 pounds.
Taking the sum of the weights Of the
balloon and its filing Of hydrogen gas
from the weight of the air that is dis
placed gives an ascensional force Of about
four pounds. This lie sufficient to lift the
balloon q few feet above the surface,
where it would meet a lesser air density.
1t would, Of course, have no carrying
power. Suppose that, instead of an
aerostat constructed Of canvass or silk,
to which we are obliged TO give a volume
capable of displacing a quantity of air
necessary to lift it from the surface Of
the earth, we construct our aerostat Of
metal, with the same diameter surface |
and volume, with the same superficial
weight to permit a certain quantity Of
cuu Suppose we leave sixty-five
cubic feet Of air in the machine for ne
purpose of preventing q collapse, by aid
ing to resist the pressure from without,
the difference will give us an ascensional
force Of very nearly eighty pounds.
That is, IL our balloon was constructed
with the proportions above named, we
| could cause it to ascend like an arrow
into the higher regions of the
atmosphere"
The Arctic Explorer when completed
will have 3 length Of 654 feet and a
breadth Of IA feet, aud may weigh with
out its car 200, 600 pounds. The vessel
as designed presents the form OF a cyclin-
| der with two conical ends. The cyclin-
| der is divided into many alright com.
partments, each Of which may be