The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-05-30
A FLYING MACHINE
Hiram S. Maxim, Of Rapid Fire
Gun Fame,
Has Invented 0ne-His Experiments Were on
the Areo-Piane System-Its Prospect
i've War Value.

Especial to THE HERALD-Examiner Dispatch 7
NEW YORK, May 29-In the Sun
(Frlday) is a three column story
stating that Hiram S. Maxim. the
inventor, the head of the great gun making
house of Maxim, Nordenfeldt g. Co., cleo
triciaus, etc, has invented a wonderful
machine. Mr.. Maxim was seen in his hotel
by Sun reporter to whom he gave the
details of his invention. According to the
report, Mr.. Maxim said: ~ began two years
ago to experiment for the production of a
flying machine. l hired, q didn't buy) a
large park at Begley and Gent 1t is called
Baldwin's park and its lease being in my
hands, have become lord of the manor. |
put up an enormous wooden shed and pro-
vided myself with every requirement for
conducting experiments. These were not
n the realm of ballooning, but were on the
aero plane system to propel. The plan
was set at an angle so as to ride upon the
air as fast as the air yields and so keep up
an appropriated caurse. l put up steel
column, like an upright post, with long
wooden arm, arranged to rotate on top of
the column, simply to swing around and
Gle exactly 200 feet in cir
conference. This arm was STAYED
IN every direction so as to be perfectly
stlff, and it was as sharp as a knife so as to
offer very little resistance to the air. To
the end of this arm | attached what might
be called small flying machine, arranged
IN such manner that power could be trans
mitted to the machine through the post and
arm. The machine and steel shaft could be
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with a dynameter, an instrument for meas
urlng force. To this shaft of the fiyinp
machine were attached various kinds of
propeller screws, which | caused to be
rotated at various speeds. The apparatus
when complete was arranged to correctly
indicate the number Of turns per minute
the actual push or propelling force Of the
screw, and the slip of the screw. When the
arm was allowed to go free and the screw
rotated at high rate of speed the fiying
machine would travel around a circle at
from thirty to ninety miles an hour The
machine was also provided with system f
levers similar to those used in ordinary
druggists scales, and to this were attached
planes, generally made of wood and ar
ranged in such a manner that they conld be
placed at any angie ABOVE horizontal by a
pulley measuring the power required by a
certain speed without any plane attached
and then attaching plane and running the
machine at exactly the same speed. The
difference in force required for both opera
tons indicated the actual force required to
propel the plane.
''My large apparatus" Mr. Maxim con-
tinued, lis provided with plane 10 feet
long and 40 feet WIDE made of frame steel.
The tube is covered with silk. Other
smaller planes attached TO this make a sur
face of $4,000 square feet. There is one
great central plane and to this are hinged
various other planes, very much smaller,
which are used for keeping the equilibrium
correct and for keeping the flying machine
at fixed angle in the air. Everything is
remarkably light so remarkably light that
one great bar in & boiler that generated as
much steam as mine would weigh more
than my whole boiler. 1t looks very much
like kite, indeed that is what it is, a huge
kite, with machinery hanging beneath it
from its under side. If it were in the air
in flight you would see a great sheet of
silk and little fiat form under it. be-
tween it and the earth. l think enough of
1t to have spent S45, 900 on IL. If it works
L am going to take a great package of
straw and label it dynamite aud work it
into the Woolwich dock yard or on the
roof of the house of parliament and then
go to the British government and ask for
an order to make lot of them.n