The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-27

| SAN FRANCISCO. Csi.
L0UIsVILLE. ". NEW YORK. n. -
ored few. 1t Is reached through a secret
staircase and openings OF the Siding panel
order, which have been employed so fire.
puently in literature and given distinct
| fiavar OF mystery and romance to so many
! historical adventures.
! The machine IS built largely OF alumni
num- and the body or car is about twenty
! five feet long, sixfeet vide and eight feet
deep. The car tapers at each end and Is
well supplied with windows. Entrance is
effected through two doorways, one on
either side of the forward end of the car.
These doors lead directly into the main
room of the car. For an extended trip
this main room will be fitted out with
hagnmOcks, cooking utensils and other ar
ticles of the kitchen and sleeping-rOom
that the Traveller would find necessary and
convenient.
Back of this room IS a second apartment
which secretly holds the vital organism of
the new aerial monster. Here II is where
the lique1ed air Is developed which has
been utilized with such magnificent genius
by Professor Langley. 1t furnishes power
10 the engine; It reduces to liquid the
buoyant gases that are the initial lifting
power of the whole continuance; it sup
plies fresh air for the car Mt all times,
and is also an ever-ready retrigeran. thaS
Will preserve fresh meats and other foods
most needed on long voyage II the Or
or on water. 4 limited amount Of his IN
valuable element IS stored ;;1ier The floor
of the car in tanks. This invention Ct
NJ. "ripler, it should be stated, has made
many things, olaafwise scCninsiy 'nsur-
moUntabe, possible 10 the fatner of the
aerodrome. The liquid air not only runs
the twenty horse power engine and per-
forms all the other services mentioned
above, but il enacts the miEacle of repro
duc!ng itself in sufficient quantities 10 in
crease rather than to decrease its bulk ana
power.
The engine, of course, Is a wonder in
itself Of nghiness, compactness and as a
power producer. Though weighing only
forty-seven pounds, il serves to drive the
aerodrome at the speed OF at least 100
miles an hour, and can operate at the
same time Z small dynamo, TO which it
can be easily geared. The current from
this dynamo supplies the few lamps re-
quired in the car with the lighting fluid;
1t also will be used for purposes of signal
ing; also for heating the cooking ranges,
and ost of all, perhaps, it viii he employed
TO reduce to Il gaseous form those buoyant
gases which have been Hquehed in order
tn 4 pa for. win fy,ar i1f, ziub
Back of the engine-rOom IS the storage
room, having ample space for all provis-
ions and even additional freight and gear
ig that would bS used in a long journey.
The sO-Cailel pilot-house occupies the
forward end next to the main or entrance
room Slightly a5aft of mldships on the
outside of the machine on either side are
the paddle Wheels that at 1900 revolutions
per minute are calculated TO produce the
10 m LIS an ur peed TIL. paddle wheels
are feet inches in diameter, and are
made Of aluminium. WIKI steel braces.
Above the wheels and extending from
end to end of the machine is j curve that
Slightly droops toward the rear are the
wings or sails Each sal extends twenty
four feet from the side OF the car. and
considering the width Of the car, six feet
feet the total width OF the aerodrome
from the tip OF its wings IS fifty-four
feet. Professor Langley, after years Ct
study Of the flight OF birds. has taken
the wings OF the albat-oss for hs model,
and ne has found by experiment that this
form gives a lifting power nearly three
times as great as that OF the pane sur
face. In Jhjs feature alone II found ore |
Of the most distinct Improvements over |
the original maohine. In the stern s |
In,ontea 4 double rudde-. one o2e.at.lg TO I
raise or lower the air veSssl, ana the |
other 20 steer It TO the right or left.
Another feature Of this machine that IS /
credited with being 4 most sensible one |
not found. by the way, on the fy-nS |
1soS!e! OF three years ago. Is the gas oag /
~ balloon that Pgotrudes from the CEN |
usual network OF ropes. On entering the |
car the doors are securely c.osed. and /
then the liquid gas. which has been stored /
in the ref-igerating tanks, Is vaporized |
an = allowed 20 run into the balloon. |
The bag gradually hIls and the lifting |
power soon tugs the car away from the
earth. After al Instructions are cleared !
the engines are started and the machine
acqu'res Roadway rapidly and Is main
tanned in -he air by i;s own momentum,
as h.-d.
i; IS a; this tuncture tlat re balloon
Continuance : gotten rid %. The gas IN /
the Dig bag is again gradually lsqueded
and the balloon : drawn down closely
over the top % the car. in on3er that H.
tie obstruction 10 me movement 81 tha
W-ho.e body may come from and pro,,,her-
lnce on sts surface.
HE Langley aerod,ome can Be seen n
notion Il; this point n the description.
me Investigators. who have goe over is
every detail time and time again. and
VINO are watching II now most jealousy.
aeciare thai this imprint on che magma
Lon VIII soon De mIrrored in the h,ue air
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