The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1892-04-22
TO TRAVEL IN AIR.
AT THE MODEST SPEED OF THREE
HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR.

able Claims Made in Its Behalf-An-
other Addition to the Literature of
Aerial Navigation.
Charles G. Loeber, 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. Loeber 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 a quarter of CEN
fury, 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
his position is the same as that of most
inventors. He lacks the funds Not
that he is without means, but the amount
needed to build vessel of the proper
size for conveyance would be $4,000,
and he says that $780, 600 is u large
amount to some men. He also wants
the privilege Of control in the matter of
construction which means great deal
to capitalists. At the same time he is ,as >
hopeful and also as buoyant as his ma
chine will be-, according to his state
ments, and belie$es 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
eff were to detail to thorough
scientist, the strongest kind of a per-
sonal friend, in the strictest confidence,
the principle | work upon, there would
enter into his acceptance Of it an ele-
ment of doubt, because it is opposed to
all the present ideas Of aerial navigation.
The air is Il 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 vertical
air columns and the excess Of the lower
over the upper air column; vacuous space
in the pneumatic tube is the means to
obtain the full pressure force Of one air
column. A. third means which | have
discovered brings forth anthexis. An
thexis is the foundation and embodiment
of my invention of the air car. can
say no more than this at PRESENT.
The startling part of Mr.. Loeber's
proposition is that he proposes his air
car shall be made of iron or steel to pre-
vent fire; that its extreme length shall
be 70 feet; mean breadth, 81 feet; height,
50 feet; length and breadth of wings, 40
and y feet; total wing area, 2, 100 square
feet, and that it shall have net carry
ing capacity of 500 tons. The minimum
unyielding air support underneath the
wings, he saysAWill be 1,1SS tons and
the area of the machine will be 40 square
feet The means through which an
thexis are brought forth are constant, he
says, and the control of the rudder alb
solute Three hundred miles an hour
speed, according to his statement, are as
easily obtainable in the air as are thirty
miles an hour Oh land. The normal
height of the car in the air will be above
mountains, so as to keep it out of the
zone Of cyclones and an automatic
register denoting the height of the car,
coupled with a simple rule fixing the
heights for the various cars, will make
collisions practically impossible.
This is comforting to know. That
this invention, if carried out, will prac
tically bring the millennium, Mr.. Loeber
does not hesitate to say. AS illustra-
tons of the feasibility Of his plan and
the existence Of anthexis, he uses the
vulture, which, when weighted with a
load heavier than itself, is able to rise
in the air to any distance. Were not
the air unyielding the bird would have
no fulcrumage, and the air would slip
by it. The bird does not obtain this by
the exertion of force, as is shown by the
motionless wings of the eagle poised in
air. In the case of the laden vulture
the force needed would be a force equal
the weight of the vulture and its prey,
added to that needed for fulcrumage
and its flying force. This would make
fight impossible, he claims, unless ma
ture had provided better means than
simple force, and this, Mr.. Loeber says,
he has discovered.
When called upon to account for his
discovery he claimed it was due to prov
idential good fortune, added to many
years of unremitting study expended on
a subject as to which little or nothing
was already known, and all of which
had to be elaborated by original concep-
ton and design. He says trial of the
test car could be made in less than six
months, and then large cars could be
built and air conveyance used as regu-
lar method of transportation.
Who knows but the aerial navigation >.