The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1897-06-11
HAS IT PATENTED.
Rev. Daniel d. Reed, of Eagle Lake
has Invented Remarkable Air
Ship.
He Wants the Government to ApprO.
pirate $4,000 for the First Ma
chine Manufactured.

Ule INTEREST VI du dir snip WHICH uc
has invented, and upon which he has
recently secured patent. He is seek
ing influence to induce Congressman
McCleary to introduce a bill IN con-
gress to appropriate $4,000 for the
purchase for the exclusive use of the
weather bureau of the first ship of this
design to be manufactured, and 5000
for each subsequent machine
to be ordered by congress. 1t ap-
pears that Senator Pettigrew,Of South
Dakota, recently introduced by re-
quest bill to appropriate 100000 to
purchase the first air ship to be manu-
featured by Virginia man and $40, 900
for each subsequent machine. This
bill was referred to the committee on
agriculture, as the machines to be
purchased are intended to be used for
the benefit of the agricultural depart
meDu. Mr.. Reed considers that the
appropriation OF such large sum of
money for this purpose would be
enormously extravaganza, inasmuch as
his machine can be produced so much
cheaper. Senator Pettigrew's bill calls
for a machine that will carry 300
pounds load, ascend, descend and
poise, and go thirty miles an hour.
Rev. Reed states that his machine
will do all of this. except that it
ascends and descends by a rotary
movement. He desires to get his bill
introduced before Senator Pettigrew's
bill is acted upon, hoping that it will
be substituted for that bill. It would
be such saving to the government
over Senator Pettigrew's bill that it is
felt that it will easily 60 through con-
gress.
Mr.. Reed has never built flying
machine, but he has thought great
deal on the subject during the past
three years, and as he is man of re-
source and invention has not the
slightest doubt that his conception of
what a flying machine ought to be
like, will in it's material form fill the
long felt want. He has small model
at his home, although it is not work
ing model.
The flying machine which the Eagle
Lake man has had patterned will have
a balloon attachment to support three
fourths of the weight of the machine.
The balloon will be cigar shaped, with
aluminium braces and oiled silk cover,
the top part being hard surface, like
a turtles back. A small car will be
attached underneath, where the rider
will take his station and govern the
movements of the machine. Aero
planes will be used, and a wheel will
be placed on each side to propel the
machine. There will be a wheel in
front to steer and help propel the ma
chine, and two rudders behind, one
like the tail of fish to guide it side
ways, and the other like the tail of a
bird to guide it up and down. The
motive power will be steam for large
machines, and foot and hand power
like bicycle for small machines.
Mr.. Reed rightly believes that the
machines should be manufactured in
Mankato, and if his bill passes, as our
citizens will certainly hope it will, he
will place his orders among our
home factories at once. He has
under consideration the taking out of
patents for foreign countries, which
must be done within six months, or
before the United States patent is
completed. His patent attorneys in
form him that the foreign patents
will not cost over 1925, which must be
considered as very reasonable, when
it is considered that this ship of the
air may prove of great utility and be-
come necessity of commerce.
This air ship differs from great
many other ships of this character
that have been planned, and follows
more in the line of thought marked
out by Prof. Langley, who is rounding
out life devoted to the contempla-
tion of air navigation. Mechanics
who have had the plan unfolded by
Mr.. Reed agree that it seems to be
more practical than anything that
they have ever seen before.
Mr.. Reed has been at work on the
design of his ship for nearly three
years, and believes that he has at last
solved the problem, and has no doubt
whatever that if the government will
make the appropriation which he
hopes for he will soon be able to con-
vince the world that he has what he
claims. This is by no means his first
invention. Several years ago he in
vented a very successful quadruple
action force pump, which, although
not yet patented or manufactured,
would doubtless prove a great eco
nOmizer If placed upon the market.
He has also invented very ingenious