The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-24
TO RIVAL DARIUS GREEN.
A SAVANNAH MAN INvENTS A
FLYING MACHINE.

Thomas 81. Gignilliat the Inventor-A
Stock Company Organized to De-
velop the Invention and Give to the
World Long Felt Want-rhe Secret
OF the Inventor as Carefully Guarded
as Keely's Motor, But Its Purpose
Entirely Different-An Experimental
Machine Being Built in Connecticut.
The achievement for which the world Of
science has been striving has at last been
solved. A flying machine has been in
vented and a Savannah man is the in
ventor.
The machine is said TO be sure success,
and the inventor only awaits its compile
ton to begin the exploration Of the upper
atmosphere. The inventor is q gentleman
we'll known 10 Savannah. Mr.. Thomas II.
Gignilliat, lately a resident of Guyton.
Mr.. Gignilliau has been working upon
his invention for years. confident that he
was on the right line, but only recently has
he brought 1t to such perfection as to assure
its ultimate success
STOCK COMPANY ORGANIZED.
So evident was the success of the idea
that Mr.. Gignilliat has had no difficulty In
impressing upon the few whom he has let
into the secret its perfect nationality, and a
stock company has been formed for the
purpose of manufacturing and disposing of
the machines. Some of the leading bust
ness men of Savannah are subscribers to the
stock.
W. B. Stillwell is treasurer of the COM
pany, w. L. Gignilliat of Guyton is SEQ
rotary and T. II. Gignilliat is manager.
The present capital required Is only
$4,000, a great part OF which has
already been subscribed. A modest
sum. indeed, upon which TO be-
gin the manufacture of an invention
which will revolutionize the present meth
DDS OF travel and transportation OF the
world.
GUARDING THE SECRET.
Mr.. Stillwell and Mr.. Gignilliatt were
approached yesterday by MORNING NEWS
reporter who had heard Of the invention
and were asked TO give some Information
for the benefit of the public
of the wonderful undertaking
in which they are engaged. Both gentle-
men were Rverse to talking until their
plans have reached a more definite form.
Enough was learned, however, to
Gignilliat Is the inventor Of machine
which he is satisfied will fly. Mr.. Stillwell
and the other stockholders Of the company
are also satisfied on the same line. No fly
ing has been done yet, however. because
the machine has not been completed, nor
has any model been made of it.
PERFECrING THE MACHINE.
Mr.. Gignilliat is now at the works of a
prominent manufacturing company of
Hartford, Conn.,. where he has been for sew
eral months engaged In perfectiDg his in-
vention. The first machine will be COM
pleted shortly and an experiment will be
made.
Mr.. Gignilliat has thrown aside all the
old ideas of artificial buoyancy by using gas
and is procee ling upon an entirely new
principle. The motive and sustaining
power will be mechanical entirely. What
the principle is upon which he depends is a
secret.
TO BE BUILT OF ALUMINIUM.
One of the features of the machine is its
construction of aluminium, the wonderful
new metal which is just coming into use.
Heretofore the cost Of producing aluminium
has been 80 great as TO entirely debar its
use for mechanical purposes, but late dis
coveries have so reduced its cost
as to make its use possible In the higher
arts. The first machine, however, is being
constructed of steel. The power will be
furnished by steam or electricity.
The result of the trial trip
will be awaited with q
great deal of interest. 1t may be possible
that the question Of aerial transportation
has been solved and that soon aerial
motors, cars, carriages and other air vehi-
Giles will be on sale at all frst-class carriage
and wagon repositories.