Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-10

| form an air-tight parachute when the ma
| chine deScendS too fast
| All the way from Cairo, Egypt, comes the
| idea of Louis Pierre MOuillard MY in
vention." says he, relates to a machine for
I navigating the air by the force of the wind
| and has for its object the imitation of the
soaring of large birds, which l have been
! watching fdr thirty years in tropical latf-
| tudes. This device is literally a fvine
| machine, inasmuch as the human FLYER ac.
| tually wears huge wings. These are at
.ached TO "cuirass or corset worn about
| MS body. This garment also ''proyides the
| operator with an artificial s.er~r,,, ~~ No
| truding breastbone, an organ largely deyel-
| "pec IN me bird, but Practically lacking in
man man, me wings are of light frame
work covered with silk and have rain
beams of bamboo. The flyer launches him
self upon the air either by falling from a
height or by q ''sk llfu utilization of The
force OF the wind, which mus blow at
| least ten miles an hour" Uncle Sans Of
fetal examiners have adjudged This inven-
ton sufficiently novel and useful to de-
serve a patent. 1t is one of the very few
ny ing machines without balloon attach
meHts which have been deemed patentahIe
III recent years.
Monster Flying Wheel
Fritz Alexander Jone, a Prussian. might
If permitted, contribute to Uncle Sans
aerial fleet a vessel which would s1rnass all
other airships in originality of mechanism
shaped, fish-shaped and cfgar-shaped ideas
and has seized upon the 'discus of Tho an.
clcrtS as the best model He emnInvs
WAL would appear to be a monster bicycle
wheel, lnsides whose wire spokes is a large
lenS-Shaped balloon bag The wheel il
mounted on a hub of tubing revolving unnn
bearings attached to a fork hanging down
and supporting a car. Propeller wheels
protrude at the top, front and bottom. but
the principal prOpellers are what appear to
nd, -
side of the hub.
A jolly feast for eyes it indeed would be
We're the government to adopt all of these
Ideas and rendezvous its entire fleet of
aerial freaks in the adjacent skies LINN
boring alongside the recently devised craft
above mentioned the observer sees now a
huge turtle, raised. steered and propelled
by air jets and not depending upon gas for
bu0yanCy. Against yon background of
feecy clouds he describes cigar-shaped
greyhound of the air adorned with a verita-
DE bouquet of parachuteS kept bobbing I'D
and down in alternating sets Opening as
they descend with the stroke of an engines
piston they put gravity at naught And
now he stands in awe of what appears to
be ant stog'e p.ough'ng ii d SAINT blue
sky with its tapering nose. If stood upon
end it would excel in height even the state
IS Washington monument. central
Sm"Eestack besmirches the etheric azure
with streaks of vaporOus black and tells of
glowing furnaces, yea, sweating StOkers and
drnning engines within Through port holes
lining this mOnStroSftys under side glare
bloodthirsty soldiers standing eager and
ready to scatter wholesale dynamite and
death upon earth's myrads. And. bark,
terrified observer of this awe-inSpiring pa
geant Of the air! Yonder glides a gigantic
fish which appears to be manufa curing
thunder it stampedes the open heavens
The end of its tail is adorned by a huge
mortar constantly fed with ammunition
whose repeated explosion propels it along
All these, and many more inventions of
the aerodrOmaniac have actually been
granted recent patents by our governments
expert examiners. But none excels Yep
peln's new vestibuled aerial express in
sensational promise. May the old counts
tn, ee-score years and ten be extended until
he treats the world to the brimfuncss of
that happy projects reality.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS. Jr.