Tombstone daily prospector., 1890-11-24
GAN MEN LEARN TO FlN

| Problem Agitatiag the Academy of sss
 snee-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 g genera ton the inventor of this flying ma chine had been at work upon it, ana had been laughed at because of it as heartily as ever the irrepressible Keely, of motor fame, was laughed al. But he was a Scotchman, who possessed true Scotch tenacity. He stuck to his idea and flually had the satisfaction of see ing it's great wings beat the air over Coney Island and carry it consider able distance before 1t was thought well to let 1t rest
 As a result of this there has been or ganized company with a capital oi tl ,0OO, COG, the object of which is edp cate the public in the matter of flying, and 10 supply the wings that will bs necessary.
 Even the august academy of sci. ences, which once every week discus ses subjects that most people know nothing about, and whose members anow pretty much everything that mortal man ought to know, is taxing some cognizance of the affair at issue, I and in quiet way are discussing the tSnestion as to whether or not man will be able to fly. Many of the learned professors insist that, as man has by the helpo machinery been able 10 propel himself through the water, there is no reason why he should nol conquer the air in the same manper, But many more of the professors shake their heads in solemn negation when | this argument is advanced.
 Still the Scotch inventors success has created an impression. His fly Tng machine Is cigar shaped, some 60 feet ill length and 42 feet in diameter. Its wings work exactly like those of :. bird by the aid of propeller worked by electricity, and the passenger is 1 carried just as an sagle carries its prey. It is peculiar affair, but has been more successful than anything of it, kind, and hence the arguments among the scientific professors Most of these professors believe that man will bs able to fly by mechanism only when that mechanism is made after that of ihe bird. One of these learned men, discussing the matter the other day expressed this opinion. He said thai from the earliest time the 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 fo~ 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 ii by means of mechanism modelled after the elastic and muscular form of the sea bird"
 The authorities tell us that the fly. ing machine is of prehistorical origin. We are told also that some AGO years i b .. woOden pigeon was made to hy with considerable success. As this exploit was accomplished more tha., 2 2O0 years before the trial of our Scotch inventors machine we havu not much to boast of
 Just what will come of the discus sion at the Academy of Science l,, mains to be seen Nothing at all mal come of it in the end except a goo9 ' deal of theorizing. But in the near. Rtime Patrick C. Campbell, the doughty Scotchman, who is the inventor of a 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. ton, and now, backed as he is by g capitalized company, he thinks he see. success ahead.-New York Mail and Express.