The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-09

but not practical for travelling as one
could not climb hills with the things.
Lilienthal flies not only down, but also
up. His course as whole is down
ward. The only reason that his course
is not as a whole upward. is that he
has not yet completed his apparatus
for giving constant energy.
Although quite number of steam
flying machines have been constructed,
and many of them have been furnished
with both light and powerful engines,
they have nearly all failed from one
or more of three causes; imperfect
control of the angle at which the sur
faces were presented in flight i'm
proper balancing. or unstable equili-
brium.
A.. NJ. Herring says that he construct
ed in 1891 a model provided with a set
of compound steam engines. supplied
with an aluminium tubing condenser.
exposing about nine square feet of sur
face. The engines, with their pumps,
circulator, shafting, boiler. boiler cover
ing furnace and tanks complete. but
not including the condenser, weighed
less than one pound. and developed a
little over two and one-tenth horse
power. The condenser with it's joints
and connections complete, weighed only
little more than three-fourths of a
pound. The total weight of the appb-
ratus was five pounds, and the surface
was IA square feet The machine sue
ceeded several times i'm raising itself
from the ground. with its fuel and sup
plies, and without any outside aid
whatever, even in starting and Mr..
Herring succeeded in getting IL to fly a
little over 240 feet. 1t sustained a trifle
more than so pounds per horse power
and had il not been destroyed by the
explosion of it's regulator, would have
enabled the model to carry at the rate
of so to so pounds her horse power. Mr.
Herring believes that the air will be
navigated by steam long before man
will be able to soar like the birds in
aeroplanes.
Hiram S. Maxim, the inventor of the
famous gun which bears his name. and
who has devoted much time and
thought to the question of flying ma
chimes, contributes some interesting
facts to the literature bearing on this
subject. He spent about three years in
studying the habits of birds. especially
soaring birds, with the view of apply
ing knowledge thus gained to the con-
struction of flying machine. He
says:
The first experiments which I con-
Quoted were with an apparatus which
Travelled around a circle 200 feet in cir
and by mounting some
delicate thermometers directly under
the path OF the apparatus / ascertained
that after II had been travelling at a
high velocity for a few seconds. there
was a well defined air current blowing
downward around the whole circle, so
that my planes i'm passing forward
must have been Influenced and their
lifting effect reduced somewhat by this
downward current. My late expert
ments are the first which have ever
been made with an apparatus on a
large scale moving in a straight line
flying machine to be of any value
must Of necessity be large enough to
carry at least one man. and the larger
the machine the smaller the factor of
the mans weight. Moreover. IL is pos
sible to make engines of say from 200
to 400 horse power. lighter per unit of
power than very small engines from
one to two horse power.
Prof. Graham Bell. the inventor of
the telephone. is very much interested
i'm the question of artificial flight. and
has been for some time engaged I'm
making experiments at his summer
residence I'm Bedeque. Prince Edwards
Island. What success the professor
has met with. is not known. but he still
keeps up his experiments. i'm the hope
that he will solve the problem that
has vexed minds for more than 400
years. William Il. Bryant.