The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-11-15
wNNEMUccA NEVADA, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER is, 1904

quarter as large as the other, into which
air is admitted to take the place of the
gas that is allowed to escape, aad thus
preserve the shape of the outer balloon.
The car is about IS feet long and six
feet wide and weighs 3,100 pounds 1T has
big beaks fore and aft of a triangular
construction. consisting of a single rod
above and two parallel rods below, these
longitudinal rods being connected at in
tervals by cross-bars which form a sue
cession of complete triangles set verti-
cally and transversely, as in the case of
the Baldwin airship. The central portion,
or car proper, is about ten feet long and
is solid platform surrounded by rail-
tions of the structure. The car is made
of pine wood, except in the parts subject
to the greatest strain, which are of steel
The soldity of the construction insur.s
perfect rigidity and equilibrium. so that
no energy or time are lost In balaeng.
When at rest the car is sustained at q
length of two or three feet above the
ground by fore and aft supports heavily
braced
number of persons, as was demonstrated
few days ago when Miss Helen Gould.
with her party of twelve or fifteen PER-
sons, climbed into 1t at the sama time
and were accommodated without any ex-
cessive crowding. But no more than
four men, over and above the provisions
and other impedimenta of long voyage,
ordinarily expected to travel in it at
once, the lifting capacity of the gasbag
being only about 1000 pounds. and 1T be-
ing desirable to leave a considerable mar
gin of reserve power.
In and under the floor of the car di-
rectly in the center is a Lambert gaso-
line motor. which supplies the energy Is
which the craft is driven. 1t is the In
vention of Prosper Lambert of Paris and
is the most perfect that modern science
can provide. 1t has four cylinders and
working capacity of twenty-eight horse
of the car explodes the gasoline and The
engine Is kept cool by coil of water
pipes, fed from two reservoirs, one on
each side close to the forward rail
Stretching across the front is a double
radiator through which the water passes
in order to be kept at a low temperature
Attached to the engine, underneath the
car, is "A muller, which makes 1T run
much more smoothly and noiselessly than
the weight of the apparatus is in the CEN
ter and below the floor. The gasoline
tank is attached to the after rail in sucn
wise as TO counterbalance the water res
ervoirs forward. The machinery can 60
six or eight hours without recharging,
and IT can be recharged without descend
ing.
On each side of the car. In the center,
is a wheel about four feet in diameter.
from which the power is communicated
by means of broad leather belts to the
propellers, which are two-bladed lateral
fans, one at each corner or the central
car The blades are six inches In width
and made of the Francois canvas, ike
that In the gasbag. stretched upon ho.-
low tubes of 'olive" metal. The two
forward fans act by suction and the two
after ones by pulling. The first measure
about ten feet from tip to tip. and the
latter twelve feet.
Mr.. Francois claims that 1t is just as
advantageous to have four propelers on
an airship as to have four wheels on a
wagon.
The VILE de st. Mande is said to be
capable. unasssted by the wind. of a
speed of twenty-five miles an hour in or
binary weather and thirty miles In a
calm.
| No rudder is used. as the propellers on
the two sides are capable of working In
dependently and the vessel is turned by
shutting off most of the power from one
side and concentrating 1t on the other,
on the same principle used in rowing and
swimming. There is a mechanical device
by which the vertical direction is perfect
ly controlled. but this is kept rigid Sc
cret by the inventor.
Mr.. Francois is originally from France
Compile, having been born in the town nj
st Loup, department of Haut Saone. He
has interested himself in the problem OF
aerial navigation ever since the Franco
Prussian war of 1870 when balloons were
extensively used in blockade running.
After conceiving and experimenting upon
4 fifty or sixty different types he finally
adopted the present one little oKer