Morning journal and courier., 1890-12-04
His Machine VIII Bore Hole In tn,
Air and of Course Go up the Hole.

HIS machine Will Bore a Hole In the
Air and OF Course Go up the Hole.
From the Seattle PostIntelligenccrl
In an upstairs room in the Western
House at Ballard has been developed with
in the past eight months what in the opin-
ion of men of sound Judgment will prove.
if practical, the invention of the age.
Mr.. William Allen, real estate broker
and former employer of the West Coast
improvement company, has nearly compile
ted 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, &C., revolves the
interior oval body, and as it moves so it
causes the larger machine on the exterior
to move with correspondingly greater We
locity.
The theory which William Allan has
held and reasoned upon for the last TWEEN
ty years is this: A screw by revolution
forces itself through wood so Mr.. Allan con-
cluded if he could invent machine with
threads large enough to revolve in the at
mosphere it will travel through space and
with great rapidity on the principle. If
Mr.. Allan be not a deluded inventor one
may travel in this machine in any direc-
ton, with almost any speed desired, and
with perfect safety, by means of steering
apparatus and speed regulator which are
attached and under the control of the aero
naut within the bowels of the invention.
If this invention proves practical, and Mr..
Allan thinks it will, railroads and ocean
greyhounds will be easily distanced. The
details of the machine cannot be fully des-
cribed, as only working model has been
constructed, and although Mr.. Allan has
obtained caveat he does not wish to give
away his secret until he has more substan-
tial financial backing.
Mr.. Allan has also constructed huge
unicycle, or as some paradoxically call it,
q one wheel bicycle. 1t is seventeen feet
in circumstance, and has a tire one
foot wide The cyclist stands in the cen
ter, and by moving his feet up and down
on pedals turns a small wheel, which re-
wolves 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 distance of seventeen feet every rev.
olution. The unicycle is now in the yard
of James McLachian, contractor and
builder, who is putting the finishing touch
es upon it under Mr.. Allan's supervision.
1t is expected public trial of this inven-
ton will be made in short time
Recently, in conversation with report
er, Ballard's inventor said: There may
be some skeptical people who deem my in
ventions impracticable, but the public
thought Fulton was crazy when he was
building the Claremont, and when Colum-
bus was trying to convince the monarchs
of Europe that another world existed even
the children significantly pointed their fin
gers to their foreheads when he passed by.
But there was no screw loose in Columbus
head, neither was there in Fulton's."