Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1890-12-23

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Air aud of Course Go In the Hole.

His Machine WIN Bore Hole in the
Air aud Of Course Go Up the Hole.
In an mp stairs room in the Western
House at Baiiari has been developed
within the past eight months what in
the opinion Of men Of sound Judgment
will prove, il practical. the invention Of
the age
MIR. William Allan, real estate broker
and a former employee OF the West
Coast Improvement Company has nearly
completed the model of an aerial ship or
flying machine. 1t consists of two oval
or cigar shaped bodies with tapering
ends. the smaller suspended within the
larger. Around the larger an immense
thread OF stiff canvas, or some other
strong but light material, winds spirally
from end to end. Within the smaller
body is situated the propelling power,
which by means of set of pulleys
bands. wheels etc. revolves the interior
oval body, and as IL moves so it causes
the larger machine on the exterior to
move with correspondingly greater ve-
locity.
The theory which William Allan has
held and reasoned upon for the last 90
years is this: A screw by revolution
forces itself through wood, so Mr. Allan
concluded if he could invent machine
with threads large enough to rev, I've in
the atmosphere it will travel through
space and with great rapidity on the
same principle If Mr.. Allan be not a
deluded inventor one may travel in this
machine in any direc ion, with almost
any speed desired, and with perfect
safety, by means of steering apparatus
and a speed regulator which are at
tached and under the control of the
aeronaut within the bowels of the i'm
vention. If this invention proves prac-
tical. and Mr. Allan thinks it will, rail-
roads and ocean Prayhounds will be
easily distanced. The details of the
machine can not he fully described. as
only working model has been con-
structed. and although Mr. Allan has
obtained a caveat he does not wish to
give away his secret until he has moro
substantial financial backing.
Mr.. Allan has also constructed huge
unicycle, or, as some paradoxically call
it. a one wheel bicycle. 1t is seventeen
feet in circumference, and has a tire
one foot wide. The cyclist stands in
the center, and by moving his feet up
and down on pedals turns small wheel
which revolves the larger one at the
same time. AS every revolution of the
smaller wheel turns the larger it will
readily be seen the cyclist goes a dis
tance Of seventeen feet every revolution.
The unicycle is now in the yard of
James McLachlan, contractor and
build r, who is putting the finishing
touches upon it under Mr.. Allan's super
vision. 1t is expected public trial Of
this invention will be made in a short
time.
Recently. in conversation with re.
porter. Billiards. inventor said: "There
may be some skeptical people who
deem my inventions impracticable, but
the public thought Fulton was crazy
v hen he was building the Claremont,
and when Columbus WIS trying to con-
vince the monarchs of Europe that
another world existed even the children
significantly pointed their fingers to
their foreheads when he passed by. But
there was no screw loose in Columbuss
head, neither was there in Fulton's. -
Seattle Post Intelligencer.