The Jackson herald., 1910-09-15

into boat aeroplane or automobile. with a rapid.
ity that would arouse the envy OF vaudeville
artist.
This craft is operated by wings. and with an
aesthetic taste characteristic OF Brookiynites she
has fastened them realistic figures OF birds,
griffons, angels and Uncle SAM" which stand
around the Of the ship TO render tho
machine attractive" as she stated in her appll.
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-of 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
fight or "to render the machine more attractive
the latent does not state.
Indeed. there seems to be an epidemic OF air
ship bugs in Brooklyn, doubtless escaped from
Mineola. Still q 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 run 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 1t
would take forty foolpower to lift this appliance
from the ground.
A 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 a contemptuous dis
regard 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
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 arship. Around II. from
stem to stern, runs spiral FIN or yane like the
threads on q screw. The aeronaut site ou q
saddle suspended below. When the machine
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a pedal which revolves the gasbag. The fin or
vane, thus revolyed bores itself through the air
like the propeller OF an ordinary aeroplane. This
inventor carries along n 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 tho i'm
provement in airships" made by resident OF
Hot Springs, Ark. The first claim in his patent
is that his balloon Is constructed that II II
bursts the bagging 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 appca.
ton for patent with learned discourse on tho
fact that heated air rises
But" he continues. disaster frequently oc-
ours through the Of oiled silk other fragile
or inflanmable material n 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 cozy furnace. The man who wants to
see his name In the paper gets out of bed and
builds n 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 a patent
Office man. explains why many boilers go up with
furnace and engineer.
An Omaha Neb., man shows a western predi'
lection for firearms by trimming the rear OF his
airship with cartridges When these 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 tho surroundings. When his cartridges are
expended he loads her up again as one would the
chambers of a revolver
With so many bizarre airships in embryo in
her midst, Washington had to take a 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 II blows up or 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 n gas generator on board that when he
wants little moro ballooning he fill It up
again.
twelve rooms-in the drawings It is propelled
by kind OF Archmedes screw 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
of comforts on board. each one painfully DO
tailed in the patent.
These but few OF the freak patents
lately issued for airships and aeropanes 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 got
to get up mighty early in the morning and worl
long there's light to see.