The Washington times., 1908-09-04
Emile Berliner Has Hello
copter, Which Is Said TO
Be a Success.
DEVELOPS 36-H. P.
WITH LIGHT MOTOR
Inventor of Telephone Transmitter
Believed to Have Solution of
Aerial Cruising.

II the hopes Of friends Of the in
ventor are realized the country may
be startled IN a few weeks by the an
nouncement that d washington man
has perfected a flying machine which
viii surpass in many details the dirig-
ible balloon and the aerOplane.
It's inventor, Emile Berliner, patentee
of the modern telephone transmitter.
has gone about his work 80 unostenta-
tiously that many persons most inter
ested in such work have known but lit
lie about his machine.
While the world. busy as it always IS.
has had a little time now and then TO
turn an eye for moment toward Fort
Myer and take a fieetlng glance at the
Baldwin balloon, the Wright aeroplane,
and other flying ships, but few persons
even In Washington have known that
one Of the citizens of the Capital has
been long at work upon a type OF air
ship that has rarely been tackled. al
though in theory It is acknowledged to
present some Of the best features pos
slble in flight through the atmosphere.
Ready in Few Days
The fact that THIS machine, which
Is not only based upon accurate scien-
tihc knowledge ard that IN theory it en-
bodies the ideal method Of air naviga-
ton. but is the product of one of the
inventors of note, Is a sufficient guar
autee. it is believed TO assure thai x
viii prove one OF the most interesting
air-fiying machines OF the year
The Berliner machine comes under the
class OF alrships known as heliOCOpters
There have been but few OF these ma
chimes constructed up TO date, accord
ing 10 aerouautical experts now in Wash
ingtOn, although there have been one
or two isolated instances OF successful
machines OF this type
The heliOCOpter rises an the air by
sort of screw motion and II properly
balanced and under sufficient control
is considered the best flying machine
man could produce.
Origin in a Toy.
Every child has seen the sort o.
TONS which. clad with little wings
projecting from the body, can b
thrown into the air, there 10 spin FOL
some seconds, traversing many yards II
that time.
According TO the lucid explanation o.
one aeronaut now in this city, the hello
copter is much like this sort of toq
only. instead of falling from the hands
of some small child to the ground, i
raverses that portion of the scheme o
things, auC rises.
The diriglbiIty of the heliocopter, 1t 4
believed, can be made certain, although
there are points about It which MAJ
proye troublesome. The great question
has been TO ind motors light enouSI
and yet powerful enough TO propel an
machine upward.
The motor used by Mr. Berlner, az
cOrding 70 one of his aeronautlca
friends, is a comparatively new kind o
eugiua-he uses TWO OF them, each DE
veioping 36-hOrsepOwer. Each moto
weighs but 100 pounds, remarkably eI
fertiye motor for the weight. The Bald
ain motor. which developed but 25-hOrs
mower. weighs more than loo pounds
while the Wright motor weighs SUI
more.
tie cylinders radidUing from the smart
There are many advantages aecruln
from the use Of such motors, ASIDE iron
those of great power with little Welgn'
one advantage is that they cool them
selves, almost. through their revolution
about the shaft and in these revolutions
act also as balance wheel.
Not Ready to Tel About II.
Mr.. Rerliner said today that he is no
quite ready to take the public entirel
into his confidence regarding his ma
chine. He said that he Is peTfectin
"a motor but that he cannot say niue
about it at this time.
Friends of Mr.. Berliner, however
think he may surprise even the some
what faded scientific world in FEY
weeks with this new-old heliocopter wit
Sts strong-running. light weight motor
that propel it into the air with on
,~rerafor. perhaps, and its tCp-hke me
ton.
All any rate, the genius of Washing
ton has not gone wholly into the eclips
following the Langley flights and IN
oI1iet inventor whose works stare at yo
from telephones probably every day,
stiu busy on a machine that will be we