Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-07-06

continually. The solution OF the great
problem always may come out OF one
of them, but without working models the
Aero Club refuses to know them So A. r:
FiIippi of Bizerta and Charles Macler Of
Tunis assert that they have solved the
problem Of aerial navigation by machine
heavier than the air. Another, N. Jean Bap-
tiste Guiraudet, has persuaded the editors
of the Petit Sou. He has explained to us
his discovery, proofs in hand, and We con-
fess that we share his conviction in his
final success The Petit Sou will furnish
the encouragement money and promises the
details to it's readers shortly.
Gaudron's Device.
Indeed, IT looks as if it would soon be the
proper thing for each daily paper to have
its own airship inventor. The DAILY Mail
of London Is encouraging M. Auguste Gau-
dron, q Frenchman by birth, long resident
In London His theory Is that too much
weight has been given to the balloon ITSELF
whereas this part of the apparatus should
be as light as possible In order that more
of the lifting power may be exercised on
the motor and other gear. His working
model is attached to a cylindrical balloon
of goldbeaters skin. ten feet long and three
feet in diameter, pointed at each end. II
is driven by four propellers, at the bow,
stern and on each side amidships. The full
sized ship will have four motors working In
dependentIy in order that weight and pow
er may be distributed evenly. At the trial
Daily Mail people NJ. Gaudron wound up
the motors Temporarily contrived of twist
ed elastic) and the airship sailed around the
printing room with infinite grace" until
the elastic was all unwound and the thing
hung motionless in the air. large model
Is being made at the newspapers expense.
santos-Dumonts Latest.
One morning We were sitting on the roof
garden Of the Automobile Club de France.
discussing whether or not Santos-Dumont
would win his famous bet. This Is that
within the year he will navigate his cigar
shaped balloon over the half of Paris and
land on that same roof garden In any
case" remarked Emmanuel Anne. Santos
Dumont has taken the only proper course
to arrive at success. Given the principal
elements of the cigar-Shaped balloon nIied
with hydrogen gas and the light and power
full automobile motor which he has adapteo
to 1t, there remains for him nothing but
patiently to test every supplementary de-
vice that comes into his head.
His first steering apparatus was too small.
He abandoned it for a larger one. which
proved to be too fiimsy. He tried success
sively two-horse power, five-horse power,
nine horse power and sixteen-horse power
motors He abandoned the regulation wick
erwork car or nacelle for an open frame
work with a simple bicycle seat. and now
he has gone back to the nacelle again.
suppose he has changed his rudder twenty
times. He has built five cigar shaped bal
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has at last his own balloon shed and gas
plant, finding the latter absolutely neces-
sary to avoid the delays and disappoint-
ments incident to hiring the service from
outsiders. Trying all things, he will some
day hit on the perfect device. 1t Is the only
way, and l recommend it to all inventors"
After eight years of experiment Santos
Dumont last spring received the Deutsch
prize of encouragement" for the year 400
francs (SSOO). He has just perfected his lat
est machine the Santos No. 81 He has
made two short trips with 1t in the neigh
borhood of his shed at st, Cloud. Parfsians
are so habituated to seeing him navigate
tnat the trials scarcely collect crowd. Be
sizes, ne no longer announces them. II
nave not only to invent a navigable bal
loon. but a navigable balloon with the nee
essary speed he said the last time I saw
him. Il think have perfected it this time
But. again, 1t Is not sufficient to have the
machine and the speed must learn to
navigate. Suppose you buy an automobiIe.
II IS perfect automobile. and yet you
VIII not go tearing around the roads wit
IT the first week or month You must first
learn to run it. Well, 1t Is the same with
my Santos No. 81 am learning TO run n -
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