The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-02

over in spite of the ships, and drop
their bombs anywhere they liked.
Suppose now that some rich nation
should take hold of flying machines
and develop them. Say the FrencS
should be possessed of flying ma
chimes. People in other countries
might say they did not think they
would do much damage. Suppose now
the English and the French had
dispute about something, and the
question of going to war was being
discussed in the house of parliament,
say at about o'clock a vote might be
taken declaring war against France.
The French, by some system of tele-
graphic codes. would know at once
that war had been declared, and it
might be possible, if they had a lot
of flying machines at Bologne, in two
hours after the declaration of war,
and while the members were still dis
cussing the question, to have the
whole house Of parliament knocked
down over their heads by nitro-gly
cerine dropped from the sky, and the
next morning they might find Ports
mouth and Woolwich, and a good
many bridges and gas works COM
pletely destroyed. After that, nations
Without flying machines, it is the poor
soldier that has to go forward and
take the brunt of the battle; it is the
soldier that has to become living tar
get; the members Of parliament, the
king or the emperor, or whoever it is,
keep at distance; but when flying
machines become common, instead of
making war upon the soldiers, the
first man to be attacked will be the
king or emperor. the first building
knocked down the royal palace, the
second one the house of parliament"
Flying Machines For Invasion.
"They will be great machines for it-
vas.on. No hostile man-of-War can
get near the United States now, but
flying machines would go right in
There would be no defense against
them but flying machines. Flying
machines could not strike at so great
distance as a man-of-war. A NAM
of-war can sail 10000 miles, and still
fire a shot, but it will be a long time
before flying machines are able to get
over 1000 miles. If they should be-
come a reality as instruments of war.
it would then be necessary for the
United States to take possession of
lands, if they did not want anyone to
make war upon them. 1t might be
possible to make war upon the United
States from Canada with flying ma
chimes. but not from Great Britain or
Ireland"
GLOW long do you think it will be-"
I asked, before you have a flying ma
chine ready for exhibition"
ooh, I don't know" answered the
inventor; sit will depend upon my luck
and how much money L make and
have to spend, and how much time L
can devote TO it, AS a rule when l
am working the hardest 1 am making
the most money. and have less time to
spend When I am earning money L
have no time, and when I have plenty
of time 1 am earning no money"
do you care to say how much
money you have spent on flying ma
chines?'
time [ had in four or five years.
''Mr. Maxim, what seems to be the
principal cause of failure in the at
tempt to build flying machines
throughout the world?"
''Well, the great trouble has been
that the matter has not been seri-
ously taken up by men that had
money and experience, and were engin-
GERS. Some men might have very good
ideas and live in back attic and have
no money to spend. Another man
might have some money to spend, and
spend it in the wrong direction, but
as a whole, everything relating 10 n.y.
ing machines has been in the hands
of mountebanks and charlatans, until
recently. They have attempted to
navigate the air by some kind Of flap
ping wings, initiating those of bird,
but it would be just as absurd to at
tempt to make a flying machine with
tapping wings as it would be to make
a locomotive that would walk on legs
on the ground like a horse"
''How about a flying machine in
severe tempest?"
well, when one is a sufficient dis
lance away from the surface of the
earth, the air is all moving in the same
direction. If the wind were blowing,
we will say 40 miles an hour and the
machine was 1000 feet from the earth,
and travelling against the wind, II
would be just the same as it would be
if the machine were travelling in q
calm, and the earth was travelling IN
the same direction as the machine
was, at the same speed. When the
machine is once clear Of the earth, IL
makes no difference about the air
blowing, as far as the machine itself
is concerned, any more than it would
have an effect upon a fly buzziug
round the inside of railway carriage
going 50 miles an hour. The fly is
fviner q = relates to the car. mt fa the