The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-07-23
E1s SOARING AMBITION.
The Plans for DR.. Bausset, Who
Wants to Build an AlrShip.
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Wants to Build an Alrship.
from me NeiO York Commercial.
DR.. Arthur de Bausset, the inventor of
the "aeroplaue," is stopping at the Aston
house. He has been in Chicago for the
last five or six years. where he formed a
company. the object of which was TO SUBJ
scribe sufficient funds to carry on the build
ing as an immense airship. However, the
sufficient funds were not forthcoming in
Chicago, although the inventor claims that
he demonstrat ed, both theoretically and
practically, that his ideas were sound.
Dr. de Bausset was successful in getting
a bill before congress in 1888 asking for an
appropriation OF $3.50 900, the amount
needed for the effecting of his project. He
might have secured this amount had he not
objected to q clause that was inserted which
would reserve to the government the right
TO construct any number OF such machines
without being liable to the inventor for
royalty.
For the last two or three years he has
been constantly engaged soliciting iuvesti-
CATION from the skeptioal, and in other ways
establishing the idea that the ''aeroplane"
might be future reality.
A reporter found HIM in hisapartments at
the Astor house in excellent humor, and in
answer to the question whether he had come
to stay ne replied, I'm all probability"
He added that it was his desire to de-
monstrate clearly to intelligent minds to be
found in New York the absolute practical
bility of his project, aud with such indorse-
ment 1t would be easy to secure the little
capital which would be needed.
you see,n continued the doctor, II am
not alone in my opinions, for / have the
favorable expressions some Of the most
able scientists, electricians and engineers in
the country. And now it Is my intention to
make the subject popular with every body,
might say here that Columbus would not
have landed quite SO soon on the western
continent had not he found a Ferdinand
and Isabella. You may draw your own
conclusions
Dr. de- Bausset was born near Paris,
France, in 1928. he completed his academ-
ical studies at the College Of Paris in 1S49,
when he soon engaged in the study of medi-
cal science. After securing diploma for
proficiency in this branch he devoted several
years to travel, and after visiting nearly
every civilized country on the globe he set
tied in America in 1866. Going to Chicago,
he secured "a diploma to practice medicine
in Illinois, and while thus engaged devoted
his leisure time to the study Of electrics and
gained reputation for great proficiency, he
being about the first to discover the trans
mission of force
In 1873 he began to interest himself in
aeronautiCs, aud came to the conclusion
from scientific deductions, that TO navigate
the air with purpose something far differ
ent in construction from the ordinary bal
loon would have to be used; nor could
hydrogen or ammoniac gas be used, for
where they would give an ascensional force,
inorder to descend this force would have
to DO wasted.
So he conceived his present idea, that of
an immense cylinder with cone ends built
Of rolled steel, ribbed and braced on the
inside and with sufficient strength to with
stand the atmospheric pressure, but at the
same time much lighter than the weight of
the air within. Consequently, when the
air would be displaced within, the machine
would ascend to an altitude where the
barometric pressure would equal the weight
of the machine If descension was required
air was let into the cylinders and the de-
sired result would be gained.
By experiments he found that at an atti-
tude Of AZ miles the air was almost free
from currents, and with propellers run by
electricity, with rapidity sufficient to dis
place great volumes of air, a velocity of
seventy or eighty miles an hour could be
created. This is the project without its
physical or scientific proof.
DR.. Bausset is an enthusiast, but shows
none Of the cranky meanness Of some in
Ventors. He will not talk of his pet project
unless approached on the subject, and then
he is modest In demeanor and will not pur-
sue the subject unless pressed.