The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-29

NEWFLYERSHOWN
Electrical Engineer Has Invent
ed an Airship.
Which He Operates From hey-
board ON the Ground.
WIRELESS DIRIGIBLE.
Sends Balloon in Any Direction
Desired.
Says Control Can Be EXtenueu
WIRELESS DIRIGIBLE'
Says Control Can Be EXTENDED
Almost without Limit.

New York, Jan. 29.-Demonstration
of one of the greatest achievement
thus far reported in aerial locomotloh
was given when Mark o. Anthony
New York electrical engineer, sent
small dirigibIe balloon scudding about
through the air by means of transmit
ted power, baking it perform al
sorts of evoIutions and having the ar
craft at all times under perfect con-
troll.
BY actual performance he demon
strated for the first time that the long
sought for-secret of propelling air
ships by wireless electricity has been
discovered.
Sitting at small electrical key
board. such as is used in sending WIRE
less messages the inventor licked or
various combinations of dots ana
dashes. each combination causing the
balloon TO perform some particular
movement.
Responds to Every Order.
Sometimes the operator placed his
instrument directly under the bal
loon and again would remove II 200
feet away. Distance had no effect on
the control. and the response OF the
mechanism. which was operated py
propeIlers. was prompt and effective.
with this small apparatus, he said
"I could control the balloon at dis
lance of twelve or fifteen miles, and
with a more powerful apparatus the
control could be extended to almost
any distance"
The exhibition was given in Leo
Stevens balloon house in Hoboken,
structure 500 or 700 feet in length. and
with sufficient head room to allow a
satisfactory test of the wireless dtrigt-
BILE"
The model consists of an ordinary
cigarshapsd gas bag twenty-five feet
= 10 an
gas Beneath that is suspended the
common type Of framework used IN
ali dirigibles except that all Of the
mechanism is operated by wireless
motor controlled by an operator sitting
beside 1t.
Up or Down at Will.
In the ordinary dirigible balloon the
two mechanical devices which control
II are a propeller which sends II for
ward and a rudder which governs its
course In Mr.. Anthony's invention
other devices are added. Besides the
propeller and the rudder he has sec
ond propeller directly beneath the CEN
ter Of the frame, which operates YER
ticaIIy and lifts or lowers the airship
at the Will OF the operator. He also
has added a mechanical device " 1ic1,
at the call of a few dots and dasheS,
releases a clutch which drops small
weight, representing a charge of dyna-
mite TO be used in warfare.
during a Two hours IrlGll the m
ventor sat at his keyboard in one end
of the building and caused the balloon
to move hither and thither and up and
down. as the spectators dictated.
Mr.. Anthony. in explaining his invention.
said: The dots and dashes have an effect
on the mechanism through the medium of
q selector. and the selector controls the
movements Of the mechanism at the will
OF the operator
Compressed Air as Power.
This seIector operates the electrically
controlled valves OF the compressed air en-
gines, which gives the desired motion, for
ward or backward. or cutting on the sup
ply Of energy. as the operator desires.
THE engine is so constructed that the
amount of air consumed after passing
through the reducing valve is small COM
pared with any motor now on the market.
BY using impressed air motors 1 do away
with gas or other motors now on common
use. and get rid of the danger from heat
and spark In the model small batteries
are used TO operate the electric motors,
whereas in the larger machine compressed
air tanks Will be used in place OF batteries
for motive power The secret of the ap-
pardtus is in the sending and receiving Of
the Hertziau wave"