The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-03-17
A BIBLICAL AIRsHIP.
To Be Exhibited at St. Louis EXPOSE

3 EIcAlet dllSllo. from Texas. The in
yentor of this unique flying machine Il
Rev. b. Cannon. practical mechani
OF many years experience
Aside from the peculiar nature o.
the invention ard the novel feature.
that enter its makeup, special interes
attaches 20 il from the fact that all th'
plans for its construction were takeI
from the first and tenth chapters o
Ezekiel and that these scriDtural in
structions have been faithfully ana
successfully carried out.
Some fifteen years age Rev. Cannon
was struck with the forcefulness OF
Ezekiel's vision as applied TO practi-
cal science and to an airshiD or flying
machine in particular. Since then he
mas devoted his entire time, talent
energy and means toward the perfect
ing of what has been appropriately
christened the Ezekiel airshiD.
ezekiel, explains, Rev. Cannon
lived IN an age of simplicity. as COM
pared With ours. and for that reason
made use of simple comparisons to de-
scribe what he saw in his vision"
The prophet. in the fourth verse of
the first chapter. endeavors so The in
ventor claims. TO give a general out
line OF an airship as it came from to
clouds with brightness and continued
flashes OF light The sixth verse. saws:
AND every one had four faces. and
every one had four wings The 81
tenth verse places these faces in the
wheels
ne eighth and eleventh verses put
the wings at the side, while verses
eleven and twenty-three indicate that
the wings were Joined at central cross
raE end ssf.e
aft, yet inclined upward sideways. They
also show that there were overhead
sails, reaching out and over to point
Of sDars or lower wings and divided
above BY this plan one line would
serve to draw wings together at side
Of ship and stretch them straight and
tight at the same time.
The twelfth verse would indicate that
all parts were in line with the wings,
ana tnat the wings went straight for
"afd-also that the motive power was
spirit which the inventor CONSTITUTES
to be an electric motor.
The tenth chapter shows that the
airship is portable. that it can be read
lly carried from one point to another.
80 much for the framework of the ma
chine. The wheels. upon which. after
an, the success of the invention de-
ponds, have commanded and deserve
more attention. There are four Of
these wheels, two on each side. anu
the repetition OF the words they
turned not as they went is important.
as 1t describes the action of the faces
in the wheels.
The seventeenth verse: when they
went they went upon their four sides.
the, inventor reasons out in this wise:
men they went"-When the wheels
reyolved-"they went upon their four
sides frames OF the airshiD. as the
journals of the wheels must rest upon
the side frames between which the
Wneeis revolve as they go straight for
ward. They turned not when they
went must relate to the faces in the
rams OF the wheels: therefore, a fan
10 appear as not turning, vet going
straight forward at the ton of \ large
wheel must turn backward at half the
rate Of the movement of the wheel
The fans really turn one-half revolu-
ton backward as the wheels go one
forward
The inner wheel being set on an in
tcInal crank shaft that holds its &C.
centric in or between the large wheels.
serves TO hold the fans in their proper
position. changing the position Of the
inner wheel VIII change the direction
o. me action Of the fans propelling
force without checking the "whirrfng
wheels. These wheels, the inventor
proclaims, can be in
stantly changed to propel forward.
backward, up or down. Moreover. he
asserts. they have solved the problem
OF aerial navigation. and expert me
cEanlcs and scientists who have Jour
neyed many miles to examine the ma
chine uphold that assertion.
The wheel alone. it is estimated. will
make a great fortune for the inventor
and lucky stockholders in the Ezekiel
AirshiD company, inasmuch as it
makes a practical and excellent wind
nil. and is submerged propeller
SIX times more powerful that the best
screw wheel. A screw wheel twenty
feet in diameter. and with d pitch of
ten feet, would have to make 52S rev.
buttons 10 prOpel a mile a minute.
Ezekiel's wheel, the same size and We
loeity, would propel six and one-sev-
enth miles per minute, with q force of
slAIy-L"O POUNDS Tor every square inch
Of surface.
Taken all in all, the complete in
'entfOn is a wonder. and has. not with
INTEREST
ana comment. Early in the year 1901
stock company, under the caption of
Ezekiel Airship company, organized for
the purpose OF building, exhibiting and
selling flying machines and wheels.
Patents have been taken out in this
country and are pending in EuroDe
and so contagious has been the conf
fence Of the inventor that shares have
over a hundredf0Id in value.
Rev, Cannon is a man of impressive
personality, slightly past middle age
erect, thoughtful. dignihed and not
without long years of research and
oil mas he accomplished so much. He
IS confident that success is waiting to
,rown his labors, and the question of
allure has never once entered his
mind
do not claim 10 be inspired he
said. but just reason that Ezekiel was
natural man trying TO describe in
natural way a wonderful machine
which he saw fly up from the earth.
Every word Of scripture is for man and
he good Of man, and if the first and
enth chapters Of Ezekiel were not in
ended to reveal the airship to US
an ind no other purpose for them -