The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-05
HIS MACHINE CERTAINLY FLIES
Young Man Attaches Bicycle to Wings
and Makes IL skim.

New York. Aug. Al. c. Rider oi
Richmond Hill, Long Island, a young
| man who has just passed the age OF l!
years, mas outStrippsd the scientists who
/ for ages have been racking their brains
over the invention Of flying machines
and has actually flown an aerial bicy-
| ole from Hampstead. Long Island, 70
Richmond Hill. The feat is considered
remarkable and the young man has al
ready taken steps 10 Protect his ma
chine.
In the test he rose 10 an attitude Of
several hundred feet and giided along
| as easily as though running an ordi-
nary safety over asphalt pavement
! The sensation OF moving through the air
he says. rs delightful and he sees no rea-
son why his machine should not come
into popular use. Mr.. Ryder's accouu I
Of his experiments and aerial trip is full
OF interest He said:
Il experimental three years on a fly
ing apparatus and could make no head
way, but on June >, last, after a
months hard tabor, / made a model
twenty inches long. with a cylinder OF
silk and thick bamboo ribs. When
Inflated with gas this cone SHAPED thing
had TO have fifty pounds Of anchorage
20 keep IL from rising l then built Two
aluminium sweeps. two feet long by ten
inches wide, with a half inch steel bar
twelve inches long for an axle, and
csamped il to the bottom OF the cone
Then took piece OF aluminium txea y
inches long and adjusted a hand5e bar
and a seat and attached a sprockst
wheel and pe-zIs al the bottom % the
rod / fixed q wheel geared ID 100 %
-zz-1fr-s. ~ IN
Pei the gear wheels. as well as a one
eighth inch bar for use as a piston
After got the machine fixed IN mis-
Hsy the question OF whether Il would
hy or not was stu 70 be settled
4 pumped the gas into the cone. and
started IL of IL rose steadily. ard then
- NY great surprise. Il few in the teeth
- gale OF wind blowing Al the rate
% twenty niles an hour. / had ar
alarm clock. with an attachment - fe-
o1t TIE gas az a given time. On TIE ma
cain-- When the clock gave out ne
gas escaped and the model came 6O4vn
- ne ground.
L then built a machine - carry 500
pounds and on jury - was rasdy f1r
my next experT-1er-- I pumped TIE gas
into the cone, seated myself n tha loop.
cut bose from ire sEcaorREe. and az
once rose 30 FEET b the air TAea I
worked Tire pedals against TIE w5zd ard
FOR ny home I cannot explain re DE-
ightfs sensation % sailing thrczzzh tn
ar o. the easy motion % r1= machine
few directly over NJ fathers place
AID rnen - The gas sScEps. asd se--lzd
- the ground Ike a bird OF lae sxsne
tot jerking and uncertain. IKE a rrzl-
scc1. but with sh0E. steady, doRr-
EzTd n1esion
TIE dimensions = The flying machine
are Size OF ec1s- - feet. circlE-rssar-
sncs. FEET: Ierxsc 81 rs-g fer 5-oae.-
tio1 against 1sEang. - t0cheS. handle
bars. Feet gar waess. - l1ch bs-
Sa-el and = inea snail ordinary sad
de. six coyd and rope ose1 - ne waist
h&0i. , feet. length q bar from ro1e
4, bottom sprcckes. = fec. size % aim
run sweeps. :. feet ~ foar Seec- dry
s1x har za4 arte q <weer<- ,z-sz-h tod
sseef. Ssth I-tnca taci ss@=s aznEes -
keep the axle s1d cone scze1bez- The
total Ere.<s- % the nzch<ne Is 1kresy-
Eve pouzSs and Is 2.rias oo<1- Is
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