Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-08-20

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For expulsion there are choices of
means. The common method of can
nOn-5aI expulsion might be employed,
bus there is danger of shock from that.
Electricity is considered best. The
rocket must be sent OUT with enough
force TO take it TWO miles up in the
clouds. ya- with not enough shock to
.njUre It or It's occupants.
A very ingenious inventor has pre-
pared for Prot McEwan a substance
lpveu0edby himself which shall greatly
ssS.S, the rocket as it is fired of. This
substance is 10 be spread out like
platform, and the rocket is to rest upon
Il. IN It's electric machine, ready to be
fired OF. The electric machine must be
operated from a distance. for at the
time Of the explosion the entire sub
stance upon which The machine rests
VIII De highly charged with electricity.
Persons standing upon L would be
tossed into the air. not sky high, like
the rocket. but far enough up TO cause
death in The descent It's action under
the feet would bee that OF q spring
board.
The scheme Of getting up into the air
IS not such an impossible one for any
asroHaut 10 devise. for many have
thought &c on successfully. Maxim
vs. D his ar ship and the balloon inyen-
-ors Blu, the problem is what 10 do
after YOU get into the air. How shall
yea .esceud with safety, and how can
rCu pro.oug your stay alOft?
~ THE AIR.
The new machine has solved by
para.butes. They offer the best
known resistance 10 the ar" the pro-
tssscr declares. And that he is right
anyone can test by jumping from a
shed with strong umbrella over the
+ head. a perfectly smooth descent IS
o certain. { the umbrella is held steady
and does not break nor ,e, air through
The air rocket must be fitted with a
parachute at each end. At the moment
thar the rookie, is expelled MO the air
The hand of The professor will be upon
the lever that operates the parachutes.
The flight into ,h5 clouds will not take
over sixty seconds It's S,Optage can
be speedily determined by the turning
Of The swivel and the slant Of the
rocket as its speed s,ackens.
At this second the engineer opens the
parachu-6s with quick notion. They
viii Instantly lie spread on, against the
clouds. Immediately the rocket comes
20 q sands-iu and the aerOnauts can
gaze around them.
But as perpetual stiffness has never
been found any more than perpetual
m1-ic0. the parachute Will move on,
the wind viii carry It along one way
aud gravity viii take it downward.
Mechanical devices for s-eadyiag it as
/. Goats along and steering il che de-
sired way have been fitted to the rocket.
There are also three small engines
which viii force the rookie, higher IN
the air while in this steady position,
ana they can travel many miles. Steer
ing viii be the least OF all the difficult
ties. as this rocket. unlike a balloon,
has no grea, amount of air in it, and is
therefore NOT so very light Balloons
dance so that it Is impossible TO hold or
steer them.
The trouble with the rocket viii be 10
keep &, from coming down too fast It
should descend 10y easy stages until it
touches the earth, perhaps ten hours
after &c took it's ueteoric course through
the air. The course upward on a slant
took sixty seconds. Getting down