The Winchester news., 1909-02-23
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.-DemOnstrat Of one
of the greatest achievements thus far
reported in aerial locomotion was
given the other day when Mark O
Anthony, a New York electrical en-
gineer, sent a small dirigible balloon
scudding about through the air by
means of transmitted power, making
it perform all sorts of evolutions anC
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 gairships
by wireless elect. icity has been dis
covered.
Sitting at a small electrical key.
board, such as is used in sending
wireless messages, the inventor ticked
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 it 200 fee
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 al
a distance of IL or Is miles, and witt
a more powerful apparatus the con
frnl nO1ld hn nvfnndnI 70 oil
distance"
The exhibition was given in Lee
Stevens balloon house in Hoboken, I;
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 ordinar,
cigar-shaped gas bag % feet in lengtl
and inflated with hydrogen gas. Be
meath that is suspended the common
bles except that all of the mechanism
is operated by wireless electricity in
stead of by a gasoline motor con
trolled by an operator sitting beside i,
In the ordinary dirigible balloon
the two mechanical devices which con
troll it are propeller which sends il
forward and a 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 benead
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 anC
dashes. releases a clutch which drops
small weight, representing a charge
of dynamite to be used in warfare.
During a two hours tria; the in
ventor sat at his keyboard in one enc
of the building and caused the balloon
to move hither and thither and VI
and down, as the spectators dictated
Mr.. Anthony, in explaining his in
vention, said: "The dots and dashes
have an effect on the mechanism
through the medium of a selector, anC
the selector controls the movement.
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 tha
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, anC
get rid Of the danger from heat anC
spark. In the model small batterie:
are used to operate the electric mo
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 Hertzial
wave"