Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1909-04-23
new WIRELESS STEP
OPERATOR ON EARTH MOVES
AERIAL CRAFT AT WILL.
Mark o. Anthony, New York Electrical
Engineer, Seated at Keyboard,
Sends Balloon Through All
Sorts Of EvoIutions.

New York.-Demonstratio of one
Of the greatest achievements thus far
reported in aerial locomotion was
given the other day when Mark o.
Anthony, New York electrical en-
gineer, sent small dirigible balloon
scudding about through the air by
means of transmitted power, making
1t perform all sorts Of evolutions and
having the air craft at all times under
perfect control
BY actual performance he demon
strated for the first time that the long
sought for secret of propelling airships
by wireless. electricity has been dis
covered.
Sitting at small electrical key
board. such as is used in sending
wireless messages, the inventor licked
off various combinations of dots and
dashes. each combination causing the
balloon to perform some particular
movement
Sometimes the operator placed his
instrument directly under the balloon
and again would remove 1t 200 feet
away. Distance had no effect on the
control and the response of the mech
anism, which was operated by pro-
pellers, was prompt and effective.
With this small apparatus" he
said, Il could control the balloon at
a distance Of IL or is miles, and with
more powerful apparatus the con-
troll could be. extended to almost any
distance"
The exhibition was given in Leo
| Stevens balloon house in Hoboken, a
structure 600 or 700 feet in. length,
and with sufficient head room to allow
| a satisfactory test Of the wireless
dirigible.''
| The model consists of an ordinary
cigar-shaped gas bag % feet in length
| and inflated with hydrogen gas. Be-
meath that is suspended the common
type of framework used in all dirigi-
bles except that all of the mechanism
is operated by wireless electricity in
stead of by gasoline motor con-
trolled by an operator sitting beside 1t.
In the ordinary dirigible balloon
the two mechanical devices which con-
troll it are propeller which sends it
forward and rudder which governs
its course. In Mr.. Anthony's inven-
ton other devices are added. Besides
the propeller and the rudder he has
second propeller directly beneath
the center of the frame, which oper-
ates vertically and lifts or lowers the
airship at the will of the operator. He
also has added mechanical device
which, at the call of a few dots and
4 dashes, releases clutch which drops
a small weight, representing charge
of dynamite to be used in warfare.
During a two hours trial the In
yentor sat at his keyboard in one end
of the building and caused the balloon
to move hither and thither and w
and down, as the spectators dictated
Mr.. Anthony, in explaining his in
vention, said: THE dots and dashef
have an effect on the mechanism
through the medium of selector, ant
the selector controls the movements
of the mechanism at the will of the
operator.
This selector operates the electri
cally controlled valves of the com
pressed air engines, which give the de
sired motion, forward or backward, O.
cutting off the supply of energy. a,
the operator desires.
The engine is so constructed tina
the amount of air consumed after pass
ing through the reducing valve Il
small compared with any motor nov
on the market. BY using compressed
air motors l do away with gas o
other motors now in common use, an,
get rid of the danger from heat an,
spark. In the model small batterie
are used to operate the electric me
tors, whereas in the larger machin
compressed air tanks will be used Il
place of batteries for motive power
The secret of the apparatus is in tn
sending and receiving Of the Hertzia
wave"
aEWAlLs DRAGON RIDE OF RuLEI