Tombstone daily prospector., 1890-11-22
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Problem Agitating the Academy of sss eDce-A Company to Boom Invention.

| Problem Agitating the Academy of sss
 ence-A Company to Boom Invention
 An adventurous aeronaut succeeded in flying a couple of miles in the sub urbs of New York, with the aid of . huge machine that had wings, and that seemed to use them with considerable success. For something like a genera ton the inventor of this flying ma chine had been at work upon t, and had been laughed at because of it as hearth ' as ever the irrepressible Keely, of motor fame. was laughed at But he was Scotclman, who possessed true Scotch tenacity. iie stuck to his idea and finally had the satisfaction of see ing its great wings beat the air over Gou5y Island ard carry !: {: consider able distance before 1t was thought well to lei it rest
 As result of this there has been or ganized a company with a capital ot s1 ,00O, 900, the object of which is edp cate the public in the matter of flying, and to supply the wings that will be necessary.
 Even the august academy of sci ences, which once every week discus ses subjects that most people know LOlli4iAE dDOGA- anu VI aAOoN AEA1AAlbSAS know pretty much everything that mortal man ought to know, is iasius some coguizance Of the affair at issue, land m quiet way are discussing ths .question as to whether or not man Twill be able to fiy. Many of the learned professors insist that, as man has by the help of machinery been able 10 propel himself through the water. there is no reason why he should not conquer the air in the same manner, But many more of the professors shake their heads in solemn negation when this argument is advanced.
 Still the Scotch inventors success hos created an impression His fiy- ing machine is cigar shaped, some 50 feet in length and 42 feet in diameter. Its wings work exactly like those of bird by the aid of a propeller worked by electricity, and the passenger is carried just as an eagle carries its prey. It is peculiar affair, but has been more successful than anything of its kind, and hence the arguments among the scientific professors. Most of these professors believe that man will be able to fly by mechanism only when that mechanism is made after that oi the bird One of these learned men, discussing the matter the other day, expressed this opinion. He said that from the earliest time tine dominant wish of man had been to fly after the manner and method of the bird. Most models of the air ships that have been attempted have been after the bird of flight, and particularly of the sea bird, whose ability fos continual flight, owing to the power of tighten. ing its body, is well known
 Should man ever fly successfully, said the learned man, he will have to do 1t by means of mechanism modelled after the elastic and muscular form -St- rrhe sea bird"
 The authorities tell r,s that the fv ing machine is of prehiStorical origin. We are told also that some 4O0 years B. c. a wooden pigeon was made to 1 Ky with considerable success. As this exploit was accomplished more thas 2,2o0 years before the trial of ouI Scotch inventors machine we hay1 not much to boast of.
 Just what will come of the discus sion at the Academy of Science n, mains 10 be seen. Nothing al all rls. come of it in the end except a good deal of theoIizing. But in the near. time Patrick c. Campbell, the doughty Scotchman, who is tife inventor Of {. machine that made the successful flight through the air, Is going right ahead and is terribly in earnest He has worked nearly all his life on his inven- i ton, and now, backed ss iIe Is by . capitalized company, he thinks he sees success ahead York Mail and Express.