The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-06-26
TO PARIS BY AIRSHIP
AN INVENTOR WHO Is LOOKING
r. AROUND FOR $780,
100000
TO RUN A LINE OF BALLOONS

To the Klondfke and the Paris Ex-
position-South Dakota Has In
cOrpOrated His Company. and All
He Needs Is Money-His Machine
to Be TIA Feet Long and IA Feet
| I'm Diameter.
Persons who are not satisfied with any,
thing less than doubling their money
once year have now an opportunity to
invest their capital in a company that
/ gravely announces Its intention of fur
nishing vehicles that will travel from
New York to the Klondike in thirty-six
hours. The company Is also planning to
have line in operation to the Paris ex-
position in 1900, arriving there from New
York in thirty hours.
AS might be expected, aerial navigation
is the method the company intends to
utilize, the problem being solved by a
new kind of balloon. While many com
panies which have lately been hoated In
| Wall street have been chiefly remarkable
| for water" this company mas not even
water; 1t Is only a. vacuum that recon-
mends IT.. But 1t is the largest vacuum
the world has ever heard of, and 1t is pro-
! jeeted by a company whose authorized
capital is stupendous says the New York
/ Herald. ---
+ This new company, which Is a novelty
Fin every respect, is chiefly novel for the
frankness and precision with which the
minute details of future operations are
stated in the prospectus. There is no con-
cealment here. Any one can call on the
president of this company and hear him
explain the details OF comfort and luxury
to be provided for tourists either to Klon-
| dixie or to Paris.
Everything has been figured out by
Dr., de sBausset, who is the president, gen.
seral manager and treasurer pro tenn, and
also 1.-THE inventor. patentee and prospect
I've constructor. He has spent twenty
years on the problem of navigating the
air, but he has wasted no time on flying
machines or models Of any kind The
results of his study have been carefully
arranged in a number of essays and the
ses, some of which have been published
in pamphlet FORM
BASED ON VACUUM.
: A large picture of the proposed balloon.
Constructed on the vacuum principle, is
displayed In a. window on lower Broad
way. The address of the one hundred
million dollar company is given at No. 81
Cedar street. The elevator bow in that
building will direct the visitor to a room
on the eleventh floor. The name on the
door of room -1101 is not "Transeontinent-
al Aerial Navigation Company hut
Federal Supply Company" Neverthe-
less, the great inventor and millionaire
president, Dr.. de Bausset, has a iesk in
this Office, and he will generally be found
waiting to explain details of his plan and
receive subscriptions to stock, the Ger
tihcates of which, as we'll as the pic
lures of the balloon. are quite orna-
mental.
DR.. de Bausset calls his balloon an
aeroplane According to the dictionaries
and general usage, this word means a
plane constructed to move through the
air, by which 1t is supported. a kite Is
an aeroplane, but the word IS generally
used only to designate a plane intenied
to move through the air without any con-
re ction with the earth. ;.js'
The dimensions of the machine and
other data are given in the prospectus as
follows: '=sf: ~
Length, TIA feet
| Diameter, 144.32 feet.
r Thickness of steel SHE'LL LA inch.
Area of amidship section, 1850 square
| feet --a
Atmospheric displacement, 9,942, los cubic
feet
Air weighs ose7 pounds per cubic foot.
| Hence air displaced weighs Se3,SO2
pounds, or 400 tons (plusJ.
MACHINERY g
! Six prime motors Qiquefied air and car
bonic acid gas), so horse power each, $50
| horse power.
Six dynamos of 40 kilowatts each, 361
! horse power.
| Twenty-four electric motors, to run 40
| propellers and rudders.
| Four Quadruple pneumatic pumps.
weight n m
Weight of material for cylinder and
| cones, ESQ TONS
3 REMARKABLE REASONING.
| Subtracting the sum of these from the
weight of air displaced, we have left an
ascensional power of 124 tons. DR.. de
| Bausset explains the operation of fiota-
| ton as follows:
Having pumped out 276 tons of air
from the cylinder it will float in equili-
brium at the surface of the ground. The
| 124 tons of air remaining within will be
/ discarded into the main reservoir, ac-
| cording to the amount of freight and
passengers to be carried IN the car be-
low; the remaining air within as bal
last will reduce atmospheric pressure of
the amount of air kept in reserve
The idea in the last sentence is not
very clearly expressed, but it may be said
that the theory is correct. The princi-
pie is essentially the same as that of the
Holland submarine boat in which the
weight Is so adjustable that the boat can
be made to float, theoretically. at any de-
sired depth, and may then be propelled
in any desired direction. The principal
difference between the two craft is that
the boat gets equilibrium by using the
buoyancy of air, in water, while the ball
loon uses the buoyancy in air of some
lighter gas or a practical vacuum.
But some OF the statements made by
DR.. de Bausset in this connection will be
surprising to those who know anything
about elementary physics. For example,
he writes, when altitude Increases in
arithmetic ratio pressure decreases in
geometricai ratio" A reference to any
treatise on aerostatics will show that the
relation of altitude to pressure can only
be expressed by logarithmic or expo
MENTAL equation OF considerable complex
ity. But since the atmospheric density
decreases with the altitude it is evident
that consecutive and equal increments of
altitude produce smaller and smaller
changes IN pressure. and THIS is probably
ANSWER IT HONESTLY.