The age-herald., 1901-09-25
PaytsaI Success of S0n-Dumonfs Av
 SAsb Causes Stsr Among Aevowamts
Correspondence New York Mall and Ex-

Correspondence New 1ork Mall ana FIX
 press.
 The partial success of M. Santos-Du- mont in navigating the air with his dirig- ible balloon has stimulated interest in aeronautics. From many parts of the United States word comes that inventors of flying machines are hard at work upon the invention that man has been strng- gling with since the thirteenth century and always with indifferent success.
 To fly has been the ambition of human beings since the earliest times, and glance at the history of flying machines will show that M. Sant os- Dumont, while he has succeeded in getting an almost un- limited amount of advertising, has con- tributed little to the actual knowledge of navigating the air safely. Indeed, M. Santos-Dumont has not made as great progress toward actual navigation of the air by balloon and propellers as was made in 1S63 when Nadar, the aeronaut, exhibited his flying machine at the Crys- tai Palace, in London. Nadar used tho propeller with considerable success.
 But even he was outdone by another Frenchman, who in 1884 got up a flying machine-made of balloon with pro- pellers-with which he went on a cruise for eighteen hours and met with no mis- lap. This machine worked well in still weather, but like all flying machines it nad no stability to withstand a sudden gust of wind. But the fact remains that this French flying machine did stay in che air and under the direction and con- trol of It's inventor for eighteen hours. which is more than the Santos-Dumont machine, over which the world became xcted for a few days. succeeded in ac- complaining.
 The patent office in Washington is filled with designs and models of so- called flying machines, everyone of which is capable of rising into the air and carrying considerable weight but not one of which can withstand a fair sailing breeze or capful of wind coming suddenly from an unexpected quarter But the American flying machine in ventors are in no way discouraged by failure, and dozens of them are working upon models all the time. The chief fly ing machine inventor in Washington is Pr of. Bangley. of the Smithsonian insti- tuition, who has been at work upon an unsuccessful machine for many years. and is still struggling with it. Owing to the fact that he holds an official position under the government, he is shy about ex- hibiting his models, and strives to keep his work from the public for fear of ridicule
 In Boston there is a society of flying machine invent ors-known as the Massa- chusetts Aeronautical Society-which has often proposed to hold flying machine congress, but has never yet issued the call. But the Massachusetts society is sure, in time, to have its proposed meet ing, at which there will be present all of the flying machine inventors of the world.
 It is singular fact that while French men and Germans who are at work upon flying machines go in for the drigible balloon, with propeller attachment for controlling purposes, the American aero nauts pin their faith to the aeroplane as the main controlling factor in flying ma- chimes, with possibly the balloon attach ment to give buoyancy, and propellers, as in the Santos Dumont machine, for forward or backward movement Most American inventors seem to think that for controlling the rising, soaring with or against the wind. or declining move ments the aeroplane offers the most feasible means.
 Samuel Cabot, one of the most enthus- iastic of the Massachusetts aeronauts, and a thoroughly scientific man. has been at work for years with the aero- plane. and, in spite of the progress of foreign inventors, he still believes that if the successful flying machine is ever invented the aeroplane will play an im- portant part In its construction. MT. Cabot has refrained from making
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