Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-03-15

Then there was William Langar,
aged 18, arrested not long ago by the
New York police because il was al
legged that he had stolen about ST.
500 worth of fixtures and machinery
from various yachts along Long Is
land Sound and used the material to
equip a high grade wireless station
which he had constructed near his
home in The Bronx.
Weddie Stokes, whose father, w. E.
d. Stokes, owns the Ansonia hotel,
had constructed before he was II, an
unusually fine wireless apparatus on
complished good results with his out
fit, but this has been superseded in
his interest by a wireless telephone
which he invented some time ago.
He has also constructed a glider.
1t worked so we'll from the roof Of
a barn in the country, says Van Nor
den's Magazine, that the lad had 1t
shipped to New York. When 1t ar
rived he with few chosen spirits
went TO the eighteenth floor of the
Ansonia hotel and was about to step
off into space with his glider when
his father arrived on the scene. 1t
is hardly necessary to note that W..
E. d. Stokes, Jr., gave up his ideas
Of immediate flight and retired from
the scene chastened II not convinced.
Lawrence Lesh, II years old, Of
New York, holds the worlds record
for gliding. Last year he flew six
miles over the st. Lawrence river in
a glider Of his own design. He has
attained the height of 1876 feet in
his most successful glides. He is de-
signing a new machine from which
he expects to obtain even better re-
suits.
Ralph Barnaby, Bryant Battey and
Walter Phipps are among the hum
dred or more boys, members Of the
New York sections of the Junior
Aero club, who have designed and
built gliders.
One enterprising New York boy is
making money by designing and
building model aeroplanes and gill
ders. He is Percy Pierce, a fifteen
year old school boy, and in the last
year he has made fifty or more of
these models. Probably the youngest
tie Wilson Marshall, Jr., the eleven
year-old son of a New York yachts
man. Wilson has built a large gil
der with which he Is making sue
cessful flights. E. Irving Harnes, IA
years old, of Los Angeles, Cal, has
also built a glider with which he has
won many prizes.
Another schoolboy inventor is Jack
Rogers of New York, who has built
an aeroplane different from the we'll
known machines. The frame is made
of white wood, very few screws and
bolts being used. Where possible the
joints are fastened with waxed linen
cord to give elasticity and prevent the
frame from splitting in case Of acci-
dent. The whole Is securely braced
by wires in the usual manner. At
each end is wing which is operated
by a drum from the centre. The ma
chine has two propellers and is con-
trolled by two rudder planes.
Alfred P. Morgan and Harold E.
Dodd, of Upper Montclair, n. j.,
have completed a biplane. The ma
chine is twenty-nine feet long and has
a width Of five feet and is driven by a
gas motor. For several years young
Morgan, who is a freshman in the
Massachusetts, Institute Of Technolo-
gy, has been experimenting in aero
nautics and in that time has built
many model planes. The present
aeroplane Is the result of this work.
Before installing the engine the boys
used the plane as glider.
Cromwell Dixon, Jr., a boy Of Co
lumbus, Ohio, has for some time been
making flights in a dirigible balloon,
propelled by device Of his own in
vention. He Is a slender lad and
while only now in his sixteenth year
has for several years been known as
the worlds youngest aeronaut Dix
on has also invented mile a minute
motorcycle and a practical tent for
dirigibles.
One of the most remarkable in
ventions made by boy Is a device
for signalling on elevated roads, the
work Of Morris Schaeffer, aged 15.
From Indiana comes the story Of
Claude Moore, the twenty-year-old
son of a coal miner. Young Moore's
worldly wealth had got down to the
sum of two cents when he received
word that the patent office had given
him a patent on a corn husker. Be-
ing a thrifty person, he thereupon
sold it to the harvester trust for
real money.
Francis Lee Herreshoff, the young
nephew of the yacht designer, has
constructed high power racing au-
tomobile which has developed
speed of eighty miles an hour. He
has patented also a device for sub
DUNG the glare of acetyline lamps.
A small boy who possesses more
than the average amount of mechan-
ical skill and inventive genius Is
Danny Chatfield Of Detroit. Two
years ago Dannys father gave him
we'll equipped workshop and ever
since the boy has spent most Of his
spare time absorbed in making mo-
dels of various mechanical inven-
tions. He is only IL years old, but
in the past two years has invented
an engine for toy boats and a model OF
an improved toy engine.
Wonderful as is the record Of these
boy inventors their small sisters are
not far behind them in the exercise
of their inventive faculties. The
compartment tray for holding eggs
while In transit was invented by
Ella Marsh, the fifteen-year-old
daughter of an Illinois farmer.
Miss Sophie Heilburn has patented
a machine which will open four hun
dred letters a minute. Miss Heilburn
is the head of one of the biggest
mail order concerns in New York.
Some time ago she saw that 1t re-
uuired too much time and labor to
open the days mail The present
machine is designed to obviate this
and opens ten thousand letters a day.
Another girl, only tfteen years OLD,
who has secured letters Of patent on
an invention is Ernesta Carston di
Luisi She has devised a turntable
which, fixed to any vehicle, will en-
able it to reverse at once.
Realizing the fallibility of her sex
when it comes to keeping engage
ments, Adele Cox has invented
bracelet which will remind the fair
owner that she is not on time. This
bracelet is equipped with needle
which will prick the arm at given
time and call the attention of its
owner to the fact that time flies.