Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-10
AN AUTOMOBILE WHICH WAS THE WONDER OF THE WORLD IN 1884
IT CARRIED 500 PEOPLE.

progress along these lines had. been
scarcely worthy of notice, whereas the
feats that have been accomplished dur
ing the past -hundred years have been
distinctly worthy of notice.
FAMOUS BALLOONISTS.
Among the balloonists who are most
deserving of attention and praise are
Henry Giffard, the Tissandier Brothers.
Castor and Albert, and Renard and
Krebs. In 1852 Giffard broke all rec
ords in the history of aeronautics by con-
structing a balloon which was propelled
by a steam engine. This was the first
air ship thai could be n%avigated in a de-
sired direction.
The mex great achievement along
these lines was made 10y CASTOR Tissan-
der, who exhibited a balloon that could
be run by means of an electric storage
battery. at the Paris exposition of 1881.
Later, assisted by his brother, he built
another model, over 80 feet long and 80
feet in diameter, which was fitted with
dynamos n a driving screw nearly ten
feet in diameter, and was supplied with
current from an accumulation weighing
about four hundred pounds. In this ma
chine the two inventors were able to make
a speed of, from seven to nine miles an
hour for an hour or two together.
In 1884 Renard and Krebs constructed
81 balloon on similar lines, but with it
they were able to obtain "a speed that
sometimes equalled fifteen miles an hour.
This invention was one of the most in
teresting exhibits at the Paris exposition
of 1889.
Since that time this science has made
rapid progress, but the most pretentious
use was during the journey undertaken
by Andree in the hope Of reaching the
north pole by the use of his air ship.
Whether he returns or not is a question
that time alone can answer but there
is one point that he has proved, and this
is that it is possible to construct air
ships that will be something more than
a toy.
OF course, up to the present time the
fau.tlesS balloon has not been construct
ed, but the work of recent years tends
to show that this will be attained, and
there can be no question but that the
highest credit should be paid to the nine
teenth century pioneers in this great
work-to the men who were able to give
the first practical Illustration of the fact
that balloons, like terrestrial machines
might be made subject to the control OF
man.
A PERFECT SUBMARINE.
The search for a successful submarine
boat has also been going on for more thar
q hundred years, but there is little doubi
but that the solution of his problem will
prove to be one of the greatest achieve.
ments Of the nineteenth century. The frs
mention of a craft of this nature was
made about the middle Of the eighteenth
century. when the Gentleman's Magazin,
published the description of a strange
boat constructed by a man named Sy'
mons, which actually dived in the Dart
During the remainder of the eighteenth
century several attempts We're made t.
construct a submarine boat that could b
depended upon to come to the surfac'
again, but while some good results wer
obtained, not one Of the craft proved prac
ticable.
Despite all these failures, however. tn,
work was taken up by inventors of tn
nineteenth century, and the past hundre,
years have been rich in progress alonl