The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-08-26
THE AERIAL TRICYCLE..
Novel Air Ship Invented BY a
Milwaukee Man.
GOT THE IDEA FROM THE FLY.

New Theory Of Aerial NayigatiOn-it
was discovered Accidentally, says
the Inventor-Expects to Win ST..
Louis 100000 Prize.
VIII Max COIN Of Milwaukee sue
coed in lifting' the 100000 reward
to be given at the st. Louis Louisiana
Purchase exhibition to the man who
exhibits the most successful air ship2
He and many Of his friends believe he
has applied a principle to his proposed
aerial tricycle. that cannot fail to
achieve this enviable success, says the
Milwaukee Sentinel
"1he sailing card principle is the
open sesame to the Golfers Of the expo
sitlon corporation according to many
who have investigated the novel idea
and Mr. COIN is busy these days or
this company which is expect
ed TO bring more fame to Milwaukee.
The air ship will be about sixty feet
in length and fourteen in diameter II
viii be propelled ana steered BY hui
man energy and have appended 10 the.
balloon a sort Of tricycle., on which viii
sit the men who furnish the power
and brains necessary to the operation
of the great wingless iier.
The propeller viii be affixed to the
stern Of the ship, but the rudder VIII
be in front This rudder will be in the
form Of disk, as win also a pair Of
planes placed at the sides Of the ma
chine. The planes and rudder win all
be kept in rapid revolution while the
air ship is ID motion and here Hes the
secret of the inventors idea.
His machine viii weigh but a tribe
more than the air it displaces, and it
is his belief that by running the ma
chine on It's wheels along the ground
and starting the propeller sufficient
can be attained to raise the
slight weight from the earth, The pro-
peller will keep the air ship in motion.
while the horizontal disks tilted up
ward, viii raise the machine and the
circular rudder turned either way viii
give the desired direction But it is in
the revolution Of the three disks, which
are expected to cut the air as does the
revolving card, that the inventor pins
bis faith.
Just how / came to form the idea
of attempting to solve this didicult
md fascinating problem / cannot rs
Mr.. Cohn said to reporter
but at the age of sixteen / found my
self at the task Of constructing fiy-
ng machine, and / assure you / was M
angrossed in 1t that / neglected ms
meals and other boyhood pleasures Oh
recount Of II, and even today can
produce the scroll saw, wood, pieces
# cigar boxes, glue. ingeniously con
itructed pulleys and other parts 81
his, my first attempt Of childhood's
'ancy, which, Us any one can readily |
imagine, was patterned after the-con. |
Of birds Wherever the ocea. |
lion presented itself, but never neg |
Getting my duties. / made observations
Mischief led to the discovery Of my |
heory, Here's how it happened. After /
Inishing a commercial course at n Span-
erian business college I secured 10.
ition as bookkeeper IN one Of AIilwau.
,ee's leading dry goods houses. Here
he cash boys. who were perhaps three
r four years my Junior. devoted their
urplus energy and time Is ali Kinds If
outhful diversions. and among other
hings they made some wooden toy pis-
ois which would shoot tiny pieces az
ardboard By force Of 4 trigger u.
aased rubber band. One dav one n
hese boys tried TO amuse himself Nv
hootlng at me Although / often
allied stones Of other dat missiles willie
play, their action never attracted INV
ttentlon as these tiny bits Of pasta.
GARD did no doubt because / fell onite
pain when one struck me in the foce
on the hands While trying ia evade
lem | noticed how gracefully ana ~.
lrately they would revolve tlrongh
ne air and ali of sudden If flashed
trough my mind, That's Just the thing
y z ftldder in a flying machine.
AFTER that ! secretly made experi.
tents with such tiny pieces Of card
oard by attempting to throw Thorn ]
lth an my might, but always failed e I
ltaln any such results as the tov hid I
I did by shooting them. Then oon
uded to make experiments with larror /
eces Of pasteboard by twtrling tben
trough the air and was delighted win .
leif action, which satisfied me tbat b
y theory was correct and that ravolr !
g planes ought to solve the probler, 4
aerial flight From that time r,+iI L
~ | experimental and kept INV Is Il
shtloh secret for fear Of batng II
loWii as crank, and time me do,,, h
lstfated that my fears were wolt d
BY studying and maxim. ~ n
rYauons Of the flight Of birds ana M b
inllon mouse fly, which III nv amin &
2 surpasses any bird Of flight oyoa
aiiy evolved an idea OF an 49,,
entail machine which wonld o,.i,s,'
{ cheapest motive power ana genora, y
Instruction and at the same time .oror II
me those two other seemingly ine,,r y
9uhtaoie obstacles, equilibrium ana s
l 1 velocity the latter being better
own g the laity as the start, via
ese objects in vfn,., Win