The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1910-09-09

into boat aeroplane automobile, with rapid
ity that would arouse the envy of a vaudeville
artist
This craft is operated by wings and with an
aesthetic taste characteristic of Brooklynites she
has fastened them realistic figures OF birds,
griffons, angels and Uncle SAM" which stanG
around the caves of the ship. Ito render the
machine attractive" as she stated in her appl
catlno.
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 and
forth by the aeronaut. cause him to rise swiftly
in the air and sail away TO far-of lands. But
Brooklyn, bent on Improvement, in a 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 epidemic of air
ship bugs in Brooklyn, doubtless escaped from
Mneola Still third flying 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 plat
form, grasp the jointed rods that from this
to the wings overhead, work them briskly back
and forth to flap the wings, and there you
are-yet! Patent Office experts estimate that it
would take forty fool-power to lift this appliance
from the ground.
A ST. Louis invention closely resembles a
clothes pin with the operator sitting between the
forks. Where the head of the pin would be is set
the electric dynamo, showing contemptuous dis
regard for the laws of gravitaton. The machine
is moved by the Tapping of wings. which are
built the plan of the cellar door of childhood.
There is something really unique In the patent
obtained by a Cleveland man. The device con-
sists of a cigar-shaped gasbag, much like that in
the Baldwin o. Zeppelin arshp. Around it, from
stem to stern, spiral lR vane like the
threads on a screw. The aeronaut sits oc !
saddle suspended below. When the machine
rises into the air he propels himself by operating
a pedal which revolves the gasbag. The fin or
vane, thus revolved bores itself through the air
like the propeller of ordinary aeropane. This
inventor carries along a sort of aerial bathing
suit with auxiliary flying attachment, whereby he
may dsport himself in the great air ocean above.
No one can gansay the foresight of the "im-
provenent In arshps" made by a resident of
Hot Springs, Ark. The first claim in his patent
is that his balloon is so constructed that IL 1t
bursts the bagglng will nest in the rigging 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
airship bug
Boston inventor upholds the reputation of
that town for erudition by prefacing his applica-
ton for patent with learned discourse on the
fact that heated air rises
But" he continues, disaster frequently oc-
ours through the of oiled silk or other fragile
or infiammable material a receptacle for such
air in balloons and airships" He remedies this
by substituting therefor large cylinder OF some
light metal. preferably aluminium" as his specif-
cations state. Immediately beneath this cylinder
is placed coy furnace. The man who wants to
see his in the paper gets out of bed and
builds fire in this furnace. This heats the air
in the aluminium cylinder the heated air rises
taking along cylinder, furnace and man. and away
they go This principle, according to patent
Office man, explains why many boilers go up with
furnace and engineer.
An Omaha Neb., man shows western predi-
lection for firearms by trimming the of his
airship with cartridges When these are exploded
in succession he expects to be driven through the
air to his destination with neatness and dispatch.
the exploding cartridges lending homelike air
to the surroundings. When his cartridges are
expended he loads her up again as one would the
chambers OF revolver
With so many bizarre airships embryo in
her midst Washington had to take hand. The
of the capital goes one better than the Ar
kansas inventor mentioned, who turns his bust
ed" balloon into a parachute. This mans air
ship, when 1t blows up he gets tired of sailing
among the clouds balloonwse, turns itself into an
aeroplane without the slightest effort. When the
gas is out OF the bag the thing is done He car
ries gas generator on board so that when he
wants little more balooning he I'LL it W
again.
This ship also has hotel attachment with
twelve rooms-in the drawings II is propelled
by kind of Archmedes propeller which
he has been thoughtful enough to have "encased
in aluminium housings" so that ladies' skirts will
not become entangled He too. provides all man
ner of comforts on board, each one painfully de
tailed in the patent.
These are but few OF the freak patents
lately issued for airshps and aeroplanes, but they
enough TO convince any inventor that II he
wants to spring anything novel on the people
In the line of handmade birds OF burden he's go,
to get up mighty early I'm the morning and WORK
as long as there's light to see.