Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-11-28
A NEW FIXING MACHINE.
THE following account OF a new
Invention designed to solve the
problem Of sc ial navigation is taken
from the SEATTLE PJs.- Latelligeaccr:

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Invention designed to solve the
problem Of sc ialnavigation is taken
from the Seattle PJs.-AateIiyenccr:
In Al upstairs room in thu West
c-n House a Billiard has been de-
velopel within the pas; eight months
what in the opinion OF men OF sound
Judgment will prove, If practical. the
invention Of the age.
Mr.. William Allen, q real estate
broker and former cnIploye OF the
West COast Improvement Company,
has nearly completed the mode, OF an
aerial ship or flying machine. 1t con-
sists OF two oval or cigsr-shapei bodies
with tapering ends. the smaller sns-
pended within the larger. Around
the ia-gar.an immense ihreli Of in
canvas, or some other strong but light
material, winds spirslly from end TO
end. Within the smaller body i
situated the propeiling power. which
by means Of set OF pulieys. hands.
wheels, etc, reyoives the interior oval
body, and As it moves - it causes the
larger machine on the exterior TO
move with correspondingly greater
velocity.
The theory which William Allan
has held AMI reasoned upon for the la,
twenty years i this: A screw by
revolution forces itself through wood.
30 Mr.. Allan concluded il he could
inve:i. machine with threads large
enough to revolve in the atmosphere
1t will travel through spec and with
great rapidity on tho same principle.
II Mr.. Allan be no. a deludei inven-
tor one may travel in this machine in
any direction, with almost any speed
desired. and with perfect safety, by
means OF Il steering apparatus and
speed regulator. which are attached
and under the control Of the aeronaut
within the bowels Of the invention.
II this invention proves practical. and
Mr. Allan thinks il Will. railroad. and
ocean greyhoands viii be easily dis
ianeed- The details of the machine
cannot be fully described. rs only a
working model has been CONSTRUCTED.
and although Mr. Allan has Obtained
aeaveat, he does no; wish TO give away |
mis- secre, until he has more sub,ian-
iial backing.
Mr.. Allan also constructed A lingo |
unicycie, or as some rsradoxic-.Ily 1
call II, a one-wheel bicycle. II / |
seventeen feet in circumference and /
has tire one foot wide. The cveli.,
stands in the centre. and by MOVING
his feet up and down ON pedals turns 1
= small wheel. which revolves tho
larger one At the same time. As every
revolution OF the smaller wheel turns
the larger il will readily be seen the
cyelist goes q distance of seventeen
feet every revolution. The unicyeic
Is now in the yard % James AfeLacb-
Ian, a contractor and builder. who l.
putting the finishing touches upon Il
under Mr.. Adams supervision.
Recently, in conversation with 4
reporter, Billiards. inventor said:
There may be some skeptical people
who deem INV inventions imprac:ic-
able, but the public thought Fulton
was crazy when he was building the
ciaremont, and when Columbus was
rying TO convince the r,ouarchs Of
Europa that another world existed
ven the children significantly pointed
heir fingers to Their foreheads when /;
le passed by But there WAS no screw
oose in columbus's head. neither was
here in Fulion's.'-