The Durham daily globe., 1892-05-17
TO TRAVEL IN AIR.
AT THE MODEST SPEED OF THREE
HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR.

Hr. Loeber's Invention and the Remark
able Claims Made in Its Behalf-An-
other Addition to the Literature of
Aerial Navigation.
Charles G.. Loeber, a lawyer of Union |
street, in this city, has invented a sys-
tenn of aeriel navigation which he claims |
will solve the question and permit |
vessels Of any size and weight to go
through the air with the greatest of
ease, safety and rapidity if constructed
on his principle. His invention is based
on his discovery Of means which make
the air unyielding to force and impact,
and this unyielding state Of the air he
has named anthexis, from the Greek,
meaning that which sustains force with
out yielding. 1t must not be inferred
from the statement that Mr.. Loebet is
lawyer that he has developed his system
and perfected his invention without an
acquired knowledge of its surroundings.
He has given aeriel navigation his care
| full study for over quarter Of a CEN
tury, and especially has studied the
quality of the air or atmosphere, and
one of his notable inventions is an air
pump.
This new invention has had as yet no
practical test, because no machine for
| navigation has yet been constructed.
| The inventor claims, however, that he
| has satisfied himself of its correctness
beyond doubt. He naively states that
| ., j. ho bat of
| inventors. He lacks the funds. Not
that he is without means, but the amount
| needed to build a vessel of the proper
size for conveyance would be $4,000,
and he says that $4,000 is large
i amount to some men. He also wants
the privilege Of control in the matter Of
construction, which means great deal
to capitalists. At the same time he is as
hopeful and also as buOyant as his ma
chine will be, according to his state
ments, and believes that the opportunity
will come for him to make, as he says,
an epoch in history.
When questioned as to the principle
on which he works he said to a reporter:
IF | were to detail to a thorough
scientist, the strongest kind of per
sonal friend, in the strictest confidence
the principle | work upon, there would
enter into his acceptance Of 1t an ele
ment Of doubt, because it is opposed tC
all the present ideas Of aerial navigation
. The air is a power substance, but Its
power is occult and made manifest only
by the use Of means. The balloon is the
means to obtain two opposite vertica
air columns and the excess of the lower
over the upper air column; vacuous space
in the pneumatic tube is the means tt
D.. obtain the full pressure force Of one al
cOlul IN. A third means which | havt
discovered brings forth antheXis. An
thexis is the foundation and embodimen
of my invention of the air car. | cal
say no more than this at present"
The startling part of Mp. Loeber,
: proposition is that he proposes his al
car shall be made Of iron or steel to pre-
vent fire; that it's extreme length shal
e be 70 feet; mean breadth, % feet; height
81 feet; length and breadth Of wings, 4
and 81 feet; total wing area, 9, 100 squar
feet, and that it shall have net carry
ing capacity of 600 tons. The minimum
unyielding air support underneath til
| wings, he says, will be 1,1SS tons an
:, the area of the machine will be 40 squar
feet. The means through which az
thexis are brought forth are constant, h
saws, and the control of the rudder al
solute. Three hundred miles an hOU
speed, accOrding.to his statement, are 6
easily obtainable in the air as are thlrt
miles an hour on land. The norma
height of the car in the air will be aboT
mountains, so as to keep it out of tn
zone Of cyclones and an automat
register denoting the height OF the ca
III coupled with a simple rule fixing tt
heights for the various cars, will mai
collisions practically impossible.
This is comforting to know. In;
this invention, if carried out, will pra
tically bring the millennium, Mr.. Loeb
- does not hesitate to say. AS illustr
1 tions of the feasibility of his plan al
=, the existence of anthexis, he uses Il
vulture, which, when weighted with
load heavier than itself, is able to ri
in the air to. any distance. Were n
the air nnyielding the bird would ha'
J. no fulcrumage, and the air would 81
" by it. The bird does not obtain this
the exertiOn Of force, as is shown by Il
motionless wings of the eagle poised
Jr. air. In the case of the laden vultu
the force needed would be force equ
the weight of the vulture and its pre-
added to that needed for fulcruma
and its flying force. This would ma
flight impossible, he claims, unless II
ture had provided better means th
simple force, and this, Mr.. Loeber say
he has discovered.
Is When called upon to account for
discovery he claimed it was due to pre-
idential good fortune, added to ma
years of unremitting study expended
a subject as to which little or nOthi
be- was already known, and all of whi
me, had to be elaborated by original conct
see ton and design. He says trial Of I
test car could be made in less than
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