The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1910-09-08

into boat, aeroplane or automobile. with rapid
ity that would arouse the envy OF vaudeville
artist
This craft is operated by wings and with an
aesthetic taste characteristic of Brooklynitos she
has fastened them on realistic figures OF birds,
grifTons, angels and Uncle SAM" which stand
around the Of the ship, Ito render inc
machine attractive" as she stated in her appli'
catino,
Oklahoma City to show that the newest state
is also IN the running sends sort OF venetian
blind the Stats Of which, being moved back ana
forth by tho aeronaut. cause him TO rise swiftly
in the air and sail away 10 far-on lands But
Brooklyn, bent on Improvement, in patent lately
obtained by a man from that city, has added
feathers TO these stats. whether TO aid IN the
flight or ito render the machine more attractive
the patent does not state.
Indeed, there seems to be an epidemic OF air
ship bugs in Brooklyn doubtless escaped from
Mlneola. Still third flying machine has recently
been patented by an imaginative man OF that
town This one stands up In his. II you want 10
fly in IT, you plant your feet firmly upon the plat
FORM grasp the jointed rods that run from THIS
to the wings overhead, work them briskly BACK
and forth so as to flap the wings, and there you
are--yet! Patent Office experts estimate that II
would take forty foolpower to lift this appliance
from the ground.
St. Louis invention closely resembles a
clothes pin with the operator sitting between tho
forks Where the head Of tho pin would be Is set
the electric dynamo. showing a contemptuous DIS
regard for the laws OF grayitatlon The machine
Is moved by the tapping of wings, which arc
built on the plan of the cellar door OF childhood
There is something really unique In the patent
obtained by a Cleveland The device con-
slsts of 4 cigar-shaped gasbag, much Ike that IN
the Baldwin o. Zeppelin airship. Around 1t, from
stem to stern spiral I'm or vano Ike the
threads on n screw. The aeronaut sits on
1nl hoIp
rises into the air he propels himself by operating
pedal which revolves the gasbag. The I'm or
vane thus revolved. bores itself through the air
like the propeller OF an ordinary aeroplanc. THIS
inventor carries along a sort or aerial bathlhs
suit with auxiliary flying attachment, whereby no
may dlsport himself in the great air ocean above.
No one can gainsay the foresight OF tho I'M
provemcnt In airships" made by resident OF
Hot Springs Ark. The first claim in his patent
is that his balloon ia so constructed that II II
bursts the bagglng will NEST in the rigging above
and form parachute whereby the aeronaut may
descend safely TO the earth This Is commended
TO anxious mothers whose small boys have the
aIrship bug
A Boston inventor upholds the reputation OF
that town for erudition by prefacing his npplica
ton for patent with learned discourse on the
fact that heated air rises.
But" he continues disaster frequently oc
ours through the use of oiled silk or other fragile
innammable material AS u reCcptaCIc lor huCI
mir I'm balloons and airships." He remedies this
by substituting therefor large cylinder of some
light metal preferably aluminium" as his specih
cations state. Immediately beneath this cylinder
is pnced Il coy furnace. The man who wants tc
see his name In the paper gets out OF bed anc
builds fire in this furnace This heats the all
in the aluminium cylinder the heated afr rises
taking along cylinder. furnace and man. and away
they go! This principle. according to paten
office man. explains why many boilers go up VIII
furnace and engineer.
An Omaha, Neb, man shows western predi
lection for firearms by trimming the rear OF hi
airship with cartridges. When these are exploded
In succession he expects to be driven through IN
air to his destination with neatness and dispatch
the exploding cartridges lending homelike at
to the surroundings. When his cartridges ar
expended he loads her up again as one would th
chambers of a revolver.
With so many bizarre airships In embryo +
her midst Washington had to take hand. TIL
man OF the capital goes better than the a,
kansas inventor mentioned. who turns his bus
ed" balloon into q parachute. This mans ali
ship when 1t blows up or he gets tired OF sailin
among the clouds balloonwise, turns itself into n
aeroplane without the slightest effort. When tn
gas is out OF the bag tho thing Is done He ca
RES a gas generator ON board that when h
wants q little more ballooning he can fill II
again.
This ship also has n hotel attachment wit
twelve rooms-in the drawings. It is propclle
by a kind OF Archimedes screw propeller whic
he has been thoughtful enough to have 'encase
in aluminium housings" SO that ladies' skirts wi
not become entangled He too. provides all ma
ner OF comforts board, each one painfully d
tailed in tho patent.
These are but few Of tho freak paten
lately issued for airships and neroplanes but the
are enough to convince any inventor that II /
wants to spring anything novel on the peop
in the line OF handmade birds Of burden he's q
to get up mighty early in the morning and VOL
rs long as there's light to see