Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-31
1000 AIR CRAFT
PATENTS ISSUED
Worlds Inventive Genius Now
CenterS on Motive Power
for Aviation
so CAVEATS A MONTH FILED
Government Expert Says Wright
Brothers Gave Great Impetus
to Aero Development
so CAVEATS A MONTH FILED
ASSOCIATED Press)

NASSVtihASu ANSS}
WASHINGTON. Oct. SO.-Multifar-
ious as are the new devices which are
being applied to the navigation of the
air. none is likely to be found to take
the place of brains in the aYiators.
This is the opinion of James H. Cole
well. the patent office expert, who has
Immediate charge of all flying ma
chine inventions, and who has given
personal attention to almost every APP
plication for a patent in that line.
Summing up his views today ne
said:
"Ten per cent of the success of ev-
cry aerial flight is due to the ma
chine; 10 per cent to the motor, ana
70 per cent to the man.
"The man of indecision, poor judg-
ment weak nerves or slow judgment
is as much out of place in an alrshlp
as a defective motor"
Airship invention has received
stirring impetus within the last few
years. and there is no more reliable
index to this activity than that dis
played by the records of the patent Of
fee. It began with the first exhibit
ton Of the Wright brothers on the
North Carolina coast and has in
creased in geometric ratio ever since
with the consequence that up to date
about 5000 patents have been issued on
|
with them. The bureau is now hand
ling an average of about 80 cases
month. ;,
"The work is conducted in the dt-
vision of the office which gives espe-
cial attention to inventions having TO
do with army ordnance and marine
| propulsion. &c., ,o,,
assigned to this division largely be-
| cause the method of propulsion is the
most important part of aerial naVlga-
| ton. 4.,.
lished the principle of the plane IN
this method of transit, and the invent
i've genius of the world is now con-
centrating it's attention largely upon
the motive power. Electricity as q
motive power is being the subject OF
careful inquiry.
| GATHER JUICE" FROM AIR
"The weight of the electric motor
is bar to its use in all aerial u o al :
and il is feared that no progress car
be made until a way is found OF gain
ering this force from the atmosphere
"Much attention also is being glVei
nv inventors to 'stabilizing, by Whlcr
is meant the keeping of car in tht
right position. In case of accident tlt
machines have q tendency TO tuII
turtle. Already vast improvements
have been made and many more ar
hoped for in this direction.
Inventors are also seeking for i'm
proved methods of rising and alght
ing. and there are numerous patenl
covering this point. The airmen wan
a machine which can lift itself SUD
denly from the ground, like bird
and which can alight anywhere. I'
satisfy this demand, the inventors ar
turning their attention to the horl
zontal screw, such as is used in Wate
i'm connection with submarine boats
and many applications dealing will
this principle have been filed.
Inventions looking to the use O.
the airship in time of war are also
pouring into the office, as are counte
inventions which contemplate protec
ton against them, AS the patent OF
flee views the situation, the dl1hcult.
in using the aeroplane for dropping
proiectiles is found in the uncertaint!
which must necessarily accompan.
such effort. With a machine goinl
from fifty to seventy-tive miles al
hour, it is extremely difficult to direc
a proiectile so as to insure its strik
; ing the mark, even though that mari
be a battleship or an extensive forti
fcation.
"A large number of the airship case
I now coming into the patent office ar
those dealing with foreign patents
The European governments are NOR
liberal in their encouragement of tn
, development of aerial navigation thai
is the United States, and as a conse
duence greater activity prevails amoni
the foreign than among the HON
inventors"