Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-09-14

ity that would arouse the envy of a vaudeville
artist.
This craft il operated by wings, and with an
aesthetic taste characteristic of Brooklyntes She
has fastened them realistic figures of birds,
griffons, angels and Uncle SAM" which stand
around the caves Of the ship. Ito render the
machine attractive" 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 and
forth by the aeronaut, cause him to rise swiftly
in the air and sail away to far-on lands. But
Brooklyn, bent on Improvement, in patent lately
obtained by man from that city, has added
feathers to these Stats, whether to aid in tho
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
Mtneola. Still a third flying machine has>recently
been patented by imaginative man of that
town. This one stands up in his. If you want to
fly In It, you plant your feet firmly upon the plat
form, grasp the jonted rods that run from this
to the wings overhead, work them brisky back
and forth so as to flap the wings, and there you
are-yet! Patent Office experts estimate that it
would take forty foolpower to lift this appliance
from the ground
st. Louis invention closely resembles &
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 gravitation. 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 cigar-shaped gasbag, much like that in
the Baldwin o. Zeppelin afrship. Around it. from
stem to stern, runs spiral fE or vane like the
threads on a screw. The aeronaut sits o.. Z
saddle suspended below. When the machine
rises into the air he propels himself BY operating
pedal which revolves the gasbag. The fin or
vane, thus revolved, bores itself through the air
like the propeller of an ordinary aeropane. 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
No one can gainsay the foresight Of the "im-
provement In airships" made by resident of
Hot Springs, Ark The first claim in his patent
is that his balloon Is so constructed that If it
bursts the baggtng 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.
Boston inventor upholds the reputation of
that town for erudition by prefacng his applcas
ton for patent with learned discourse on the
fact that heated air RISES
But" he continues, disaster frequently &C.
ours through the of oiled silk or other fragile
or infammable material as receptacle for suck
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 cozy furnace. The man who wants to
see his name 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 60! This principle, according to paten:
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 rear 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 many bizarre airships in embryo In
her midst, Washington had to take a hand. The
man Of the capital goes one better than the Ar.
kansas inventor mentioned, who turns his "bust.
ed' balloon into parachute. This mans air.
ship, when 1t blows up he gets tired of sailing
among the clouds balloonwise 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 board so that when he
wants little more ballooning he can fill It M
again.
This ship also has a hotel attachment with
twelve rooms-in: the drawings It Is propelled
oy KIND OF Arcn1medes screw propeller which
he has been thoughtful enough to have "encased
In aluminium housings" that ladies' skirts will
not become entangled He too, provides al, 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
are enough to convince any inventor that if he
wants to spring anything novel on tho nao,1a
in the line of handmade birds of burden h., eo+
to get up mighty early in the morning ana worr
as long as there's light to see.