The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-17
DR.. DE BAUSSET'S AIRSHIP.
HE EXPECTS TO TAKE PEOPLE TO
PARIS Nv IT NEXT YEAR
III. Idea 1. to Float n steel Cylinder by
Means of vacuum, Four and One.
Half Miles Up In the Air-He Has
Also n Company to Float with sIOO,.
600, 900 CnpitaI-His The ories Approx.d

airline? Any person possessing the requisite
courage To disport himself at an altitude 81 four
and one half miles and the requisite cash TO pay
fare Of nearly ten times the cost OF passage by
water may have the opportunity TO ceave the upper
air at the rate Of 100 miles hour and mako
Paris in thirty hours from this city, according
TO the plans and specifications Of an aeronau ,icai
engineer who has recently been stirring about
| in the flying machine market. lie il Dr. A. DE
Bausset, and that he means business of one sort
or another is shown by the fact that he has or
| gained n stock company to float his airship-
financially, that is for he says that II will float
| itself otherwise announcing his capital
stock as 500, 900 900. offers one million shares
| at 500 share. His arship is TO be the biggest
thing In the balloon limo ever thought Of: IT, il to
ascend by the vacuum principle, and II will have
a capacity of 1000 passengers
| Theoretically, DR. dc Bausset's scheme Of a
vacuum ship is an excellent one, 10 all appear
hnces lie has been Studying on 1t for nearly
| twenty years. he says. and he is not only sure
of his figures and plans but he has the testimony
of competent engineers as TO the correc,ncsss Of
his Constitutional mathen istics Tho process
which he proposes TO apply to the solution Of the
problem oil aerial navigation is the result Of rea.
soning on his part 10 this general effect:
We know that hydrogen gas. being lighter
than air. will rise and has asccnsional power
10 NV certain amount OF weight. II any sub
stance can be found which is lighter than by dro.
gen gas that will possess still greater asconsionn
power. Absolute nothingneas, that is a vacuum
has no weight at all. and is therefore much lighter
than hydrogen gas and will exert much greater
asccnsional power Therefore balloon enclosing
vacuum would be the solution OF the problem.
But when the air is vithdra wn from a balloon
the pressure viii cause II Ia collapse inward.
Therefore | must construct a balloon of some
rigid material sufficiently strong TO resist the
enormous pressure Of the atmosphere when the
air Is sucked out Of 1t. and still light enough 10
be lifted by the ascc nsional power Of the vacuum
To construct such n balloon has been the pro-
iect on which the inventor has spent 50 many
years and which be confidently believes to be
now On the verge Of triumphant completion. lie
figured that he could build steel cylinder having
displacement Of ~. 600. 900 cubic feet VI air
which, by n system Of internal braces invented
BY himself, would have the strength to resist the
pressure when a vacuum or as near an approach
10 vacuum as ~ practicable, was produced
within IL. The 1000 900 cubic feet Of air dis.
placed represents a weight OF about 400 tons OF
1000 pounds each. therefore the sscensionl
force OF the coutrivancr would be 400 tons less
the weight Of the materials used in its construc-
'ion. These materials he estimated would weigh
22o tons leaving a lecway Of $50 tons for pro-
polling and directing machinery. and for pas
scnger or fraEht accom- dationA DIR De Bnus
set experimental with steel plates and madc a
series OF experiments in Chicago before number
oi exports which satisfied Them that his structure
would present n suf1cirnt strength To CIV, Coz
efficient of safety of 80 Per cent against CO lapse
from air press,r'. Thus far all was theo etical
for prn.ucal trsi was wanting Lieut. Finley.
5 4, sigma, Service corps sugg-s,e this
In letter to the inventor. written after gon. over
his plans specifications and drawings which
he concluded as follows
aMa,h.ma,lrSaiiy you ar" RICH, practically
Practically all was dark and unknown No.
body had ever even tried 10 achieve The ascension
OF cylinder by enhausttng IN" ar from within
~ There was no criterion Z" how such cyiin.
der would act and scientific theories beautifully
when confronted by the cold facts Of -xr-rincn
, 't No such idea entered the head Of Dr
ctples and hc announced TIM, he would forthwith
build such cylinder a. b" had described
small scale The ratio " weight .S srr rn r On
bc too great 10 permit Of the ASCENSION ~ the cyn
der So he proposed to construct a cylinder II
mensions Of which should be as follows Total
length Of cylinder. 80 feet: diameter lil32
Of conc cross SECTION ~ cylinder. 10 360 square
,ssS sa9Se % 'y cmP ,..m"sph"T di.psce
80 degrees The work 81 cnnstrnciior viii h~
GIN ,ne s aId AZ S n n, mnhth somewhere
pleted before the end ~ June Here are the prin.
cipnl characteristics oi the craft as ST forth by
the inventor.
The ascenSonai force for overcoming gravi,a.
ton Is TO b. obtained by pumping air out from
own weigh, 81 $50 tons including tho car las,
enrd under II, Which contains all the apparatus |
TSe maximum altitude con,rmplsteS IN h, |
REACHED for int-roccnnic travels is four and one
The apparatus will consist of forty r,hausting
screw prop-llrrs, each capable of rIhausting
1900 cubic feet Of Air per minute At 800 re,olG-
reF min Eisrht 81 .E... n
SO exhausted nt any angle desired for Obtaining
peers are to be located directly under the cyIIn.
der vacuum and are to b. rigidly bol,rd at l,r
the hurrcan- deck 81 the car which car u is"i
Is to b, rig,dly fastened to the cylinder in order
to render the whole construction so solid that
The MECHANICAL horse power is taken at a maxi.
mum Of ~, ono pounds,
typ at s. viii %t"me ,hec c's m. 81 m ,SIs
effective in navigating III" sky at four and one
on,rtric pressure. and the speed viii b., prop"r
In a broadway show window not far from City
Hall Park. a picture of the arronau,icaI craft
Ia exhibited and there is always crowd around
4, SvN Exporter. who had noticed this c..
uon Company Of New Yotk. called a" The " cam.
pany''s ofhce at II Cedar street. There he found
prospects Of bis vacuum nirship; as he calls il.
WIN u WrdH I" InhlWWhUchl ana engineer. |
ing detail. expressed through a lingual medium
which the reporter presently Unidentified az
English Of difficult twp.
We're nlmos, ready 10 b"Ein work ON it" said
he, a site was offered uS in New Jersey, but
We have picked out a place on Long Island
md shall probably commence the building in
January. Capital has come in both from this
country and from Europe aud think We shall
have enough tostart on by the first Of the nrw year
How long will II take 10 build The ship %
We want and intend 10 build twenty ships
at once replied the inventor, 80 rs 10 have a |
fleet ready TO go all over the world aud tina, would
take a year hut first W" shall build one 10 70 10
the Paris Exposition and hurry il up as fast ns
possible. by working day and night VIC expect
10 get 4 completed in time for the Exposition
Don't you expect IL find difficulty In getting
any one 10 try the Trip"
NO, indeed said tn inventor cmphatirally.
~ have already had applications from people
In this country and IN Enropc who are eager Ia |
60 and willing 10 pay the 81, 600 passage 10 cX
pcrencc the novel;" ~ flying through tn, air ,
and escaping the miscricS 81 sea sick ncss"
. Surprising" suggested the reporter chat |
despite The correctness ~ your theories aud the
excellence OF your material some weakness should
develop IN the structure while il was soaring a !
few miles above the earth
1T cant happen" answered the inventor with
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