The Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-03
An AIR CYCLE NEXT,
THAT is WHAT'S WANTED BfFOE-
THE FLYING MACHINE.

Must learn Essential Lessons First.
This Frencnman who covered the dead
walls of Paris with calls for subscriptions
70 a Society of Aviation, to start with
carl al of 0 900 francs. may have been
lacking in the highest qualities of public
spirit. He was placed in Jail for takin.
money for his little l-ivat.. fviny ma.
chin IS. COST .'romS 1o to 5000. whicl
he filled to liver. But his merit lies
in discovering the want that till> the
brea SITS Of a large number of men today.
It is only the somewhat headlong method
OF gratifying that warming which las
interfered for a time with MS iurn.
motion. Had he hui had The fore,hnught
TO haven't. to beg or TO borrow a fairly
efficient flying machine. n~ot.liny short Of
a ca &c would now prevent him from TAX
ing a leave as French as himself.
Though he should languirn for the rest
OF his days i" nrison. NJ. Delrrat will
have the glory II the discovery that the
bicycle n" TO- r. Satisfies the longing of
mankind toy ard a freer movement over
the face of land and water. If we are
to believe the evolution SIS. man is the
result Of gradual aspiration. from the
worm that walloweth on a portion of its
anatomy unsuited to ears polite. through
h many footed. the four footed and four
handed beasts, up to The natural lord Of
creation who runs perpendicular OF two
feet. The present century has seen man
become what the old legends would have
termed the ''whirling one foot" Why
should not this progress continue and
the next century find man rising from
that single pied a terre into more or less
sustained aviation:
The flying machine still holding I.
earth by n wheel has already appeared
sp~oradically in England. according to
Engineering. Mr.. Philips published
the results of his trial of a machine rest
ing on a light car and claims that he
few. but the front wheel of the car ncv.
er left the ground. This is quite AS it
should be. We creep before we walk,
we graduate from tricycle. to bicycle,
and now We are at the unicycle age,
Who is the man 10 lift rs finally CHAR Of
the earth:
The principle of the balloon. useful a.
it is in overcoming gravity. has carried
generations Of inventors into a fools
paradise.
Birds are lighter than beasts. but they
are not soap bubbles. And Ia the bird
We have 10 return indirectly or iirectl,
for lessons III the navigation Of the air.
The aeroplane. in which our able await
ors are now ~reposiny 50 mnch conf
dence, nut upon nch they take care
TO rei,ose their own brittle bodies. Is
the result of "a study of the soaring os
birds. Larterly it has been reasoned
that individual feathers have a
powerful influence i'll supporting the
bird IN air. So the a.roplan.s are made
solid. but with stats. and in some
cases JOlntet III sections. SO that while
one portion Is in one plane another NAV
be tilted mp or down to get the lifting
power of a change of angle. This power
Is so great that our leading aviators,
like Hiram Maxim and Professor Lang
ley, expect TO obtain great v~slncitieS if
ear once get their airship, under
way and under control.
The money spent by these
and Investigators Is mounting t. "A gre;1
but who shall say it is wasted. con
nderlng the benefits To accrue. The re.
mark attributed to Giffa.-d when diving
hat he would not reveal the secret Of his
because he thought he saw the
lir ensanguiued by war a. the seas have
been, IN tue earth" need not disturb
Is. II he did say that. he was teInpora-
i'll a state Of weakness. for the fly
mr. ,.a.l,n. ,,,11 IL ,.~. d., ,,...
'et invented to break down the preju.
of one nation for another. Wars
re the result Of such prejudiees care
'ully inf1amed by ambitious men. and
While the aviation is not going 20 stop
III wars it will surely reduce them to .
minimum.
More important than such machinesGs
Renard and Krebs success
uily steered from Meudon to the walls
# Paris and back again are the small
lying machines developed from the hi
'ycle, which seem now about TO make
heir appearance. The bicycle with cleo
nc motor is invented. Now comes the
urE of a combination Of bicycle and
Ivlator which shall permit the rider to
earth and skim along for 100 yards
= 80 without detriment to himself or
10 machine. BY way Of these inven-
Ions will come the discovery. step by
Esp, Of means aud methods of sustain
- fight for longer periods and also
y actual training in motion through
air which is now wanting TO man
ind.
1he inventors who are constructing
paper or in actually great Aging ma
hines are like men Of an inland race
rho have for the first time seen a broad
isos Of water. Before learning To pal
1e . canoe they are already building d
rigate, before understanding the priu.
iple Of the steam engine they are SET
ing to work to make an ocean steam
What is wanted Is a popular air cyci-
IL air safety" 70 lead The way 20 iarg-,
ir wagons with sustained 6ight. WI
yiu uyen. oae?-New York Times.