The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-02-22
Young Russian Inventor Has a
Wonderful Idea.
Hopes Soon to 60 Sailing Down
Broadway, n. Y.
UNLIKE DARIUS GREEN
Went Up and Sailed Around the
Air at Will.
With AerOutOmObiIe SchWabek
win Enter $4,000 Contest.

New York, Feb. 22.-George G..
Schwabek, a young Russian, has in
vented a dirigible flying machine and
named it the aeroutomobile. Unless
he is dreaming, he has made aerial
navigation possible.
Mr.. Schwabek's lawyer, Francis J..
Nekarda. Of No. 309 Broadway, who
is also his business manager, declares
the inventors claim is no dream. He
told a reporter yesterday that on Jan.
26 last, at stocky's farm, North Beach,
L. L, he saw schwabek go up in the
machine, stay UP in It. control it at will
in the air. and come down in 1t to a
designated spot when he was good and
ready and not before.
There are two kinds of airships,"
said Mr.. Nekarda, 1.-The heavier than
air and the Tighter than air. The
lighter than air are sustained by gas
filled tanks or bags, and although they
have thus far furnished the most spec
tacular results, I think all scientific
men must agree that on account of
their cumb ersomeness and destructi-
bllity they are not practical. The
famous Baldwin airship was on this
principle. Then there are the aero
planes, heavier than air; theoretically
OOAACClB Jul pLdCllCalIY useless on dC-
count of the principle by which the
moment you increase the size of your
aeroplanes until the attraction of
gravity is greater than the rising pow
er OF resisted air, down goes the ma
chine.
MY clients idea is entirely now. In
stead of merely propelling and steer
ing his ship by fans or sails he also
raises it by them. His ship proper is
constructed Of bamboo or aluminium,
as you please. From it rise vertically
Two mastS, one at each end. At the
head of each OF these masts is a set of
double sails or fans on the principle of
an air-screw or turbine. They are
operated by an electric motor installed
anidship in the hull and revolved at
high speed in opposite directions, they
rise and lift the ship with them. The
same motor operates also similar sails
at the ends of longitudinal and trans
verse rods hung below the hull, ad-
Unstable at will, and contrOllabIe by
levers so as to reVolve at the same
speed as the lifting sails or at different
speeds. All of the sails or fans are of
aluminium covered with plush to make
them take hold.
"On Jan IS last. I went with my
client to vacant lot at North Beach.
He and I and two assistants carried
the machine which was really only a
model II feet by 4. Mr.. Schwabek
entered the car and started the
mechanism by hand as the machine
contained no motor. Although we
were convinced of the machines
merit, we were astonished when it
commenced to rise. Mr.. Schwabek
was in the air fifteen minutes and rose
to height of $50 feet He came down
ten blocks away as he had agreed be-
forehand. He had made no applica-
ton for a patent then. but has since
put one in. He intends to enter the
Deutsch-Archdeacon race for $4,000.
and is confident of winning. He has
invited party of friends to take a sail
down Broadway with him as soon as
he has completed a larger machine
now in course of construction"