Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-27

escaped from Mineola Still, third fly
ing machine has recently been patented
by an imaginative man OF that town. This
one stands UP in his. II you want to fly
in It, you plant your feet firmly upon the
platform, grasp the jointed rods that run
from this to the wings overhead, work
them briskly back and fourth so as to flap
the wings, and there you are yet! Patent
office experts estimate that 1t would take
forty fool power to lift this appliance from
the ground.
II am much In favor of erecting q
launching platform on top of the patent
office here" said an overworked ex-
aminer in the airship section. "Then be-
fore We accepted an application for
patent on flying machine. compel the
inventor to go on the roof, launch him
self out into the air, and try a flight
across Seventh street and back. If he re-
turns, then accept his application This
VOID save us lot of useless work and
make business brisk for the coroner"
One man, though hailing from Corn
planter, Pa, has nothing of the hayseed
about his plan TO run the passenger trains
out or business by means of an overhead
rail on which runs a grooved wheel. From
this the wouldbe travler suspends himself
and get along by means OF wings at
tAched to his hands and feet There is a
steering tail fastened between his shoulder
blades, whereby he can switch off onto
branch roads.
St Louis invention closely resembles
clothes pin with the operator sitting be-
tween the forks Where the head of the
pin would be is set the electric dynamo,
showing a contemptuous disregard for the
laws OF gravitation. The machine is moved
by the Tapping Of wings, which are built
on the plan of the cellar door of childhood.
PedaIinE q Gas nag.
There is something really unique In the
patent obtained by a Cleveland man. The
device consists OF a cigar-shaped gas bag,
much like that in the Baldwin or Zeppelin
airship. Around 1t, from stem to stem, runs
spiral fin or vane like threads on a
screw. The aeronaut sits on a saddle sus-
pended below. When the machine rises
in to the air he propels himself by operat-
ing pedal which revolves the gas bag.
The fin or vane, thus revolved. bores itself
through the air like the propeller on an
ordinary aeroplane. This inventor carries
along a sort of aerial bathing suit with
auxiliary flying attachment, whereby he
may disport himself in the great air ocean
above.
That his balloon is so constructed that II
It bursts the bagging with nest in the rig
ging above. and form a parachute whereby
the aeronaut may descend safely TO the
earth" This is commended to anxious
mothers whose small boys have the airshlp
bug.
| A Boston inventor upholds the reputation
OF that town for erudtion by prefacing his
application for patent with a learned dis
course on the fact that heated air rises.
But" he continues disaster frequently
occurs through the use OF oiled silk OF
other fragile or inflammable material as a
receptacle for such air In balloons and air
ships" He remedies this by substituting
therefor a large cylinder OF some light
metal, preferably aluminium" as his speci-
fications state. Immediately beneath this
cylinder Is placed a coy furnace. The man
who wants to see his name in the paper
gets out Of bed and builds a fire in this
/ furnace. This heats the air in the alumni
mum cylinder, the heated air rises. taking
\ along cylinder furnace and man. and
away they 60 This principle, according e