The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-12-24
BIRD MEN OF OTHER TINES
THE FIRST OF THEW TRIED
TO nv I.9OO YEARS too.
said To Have scared over Inc s1S Of
Rome. hut Zen and was killed HAD
NJ in,iiator~ foe several Centuries
Then n Monk rtf an Nrrial Parade.

reign OF Nero, from 81 to ~ \. ID. In
account Of tn" adventure il very brieI
but not more than was his pioneer
career a. an aviator. for IL il recorde,
! that his evil genius became displease'
with him when he was alof' and suffere,
am TO fall and dash out his life.
; The fate Of this first martyr OF the al
seems to have discoura ged experimenter
Tor many centuries, says the Air Seoul
for We must turn over a thousand year
OF history before putting our finger oil
the next birdman 10 be- definitely men
toned. This was Elmer,is. a thirteenth
century monk. Taking he flying squire
Tor his model he gave successful exhibi
lions from tower. soaring sonnet lines
abov" n furlong through space
And in the same century the learned
philosopher Roger Bacon averred: There
IL certainly a flying inst rument. not that
! ever knew a man that had il. bur I an
particularly acquainted with the in
genious person who contrived il
The first hirdman 10 fiy considerable
distance appears TO have heen John
Babtiste Dante a fifteenth century mafhs-
maiician who lived in Perugia. He
framed a pair of ingenious wings with
which, y is narra' I'd. he amused his fellow
Perugians
One Of his most succe~sful flights was
over Lake Trasinene. that body Of wat or
with no outlet. on WHO'S. nort hern shore
Hannibal annihilated the Romans But
the aerial career Of Dante u Perugia
was cut short one day when he fell on the
top OF NJ Mary's church and broke his
thigh
That the great leonardo da vinci its,-
1917 was a bird man as well a. a painter,
sculptor musician. architect. engineer
and rnechanician. IL stated by some au-
thorities. While making the careful OBJ
-ervation- on which he based his -Tr.atis.
on the Flight 81 Birds h.. 40 thoroughly
fnthnneci the secrets of fIyinp IA IN n.
able to build pair of mechanical wings
with which according tn Cup.r,ns's "Ex.
ceilence of Man. ne practis.,d flying .,,c-
cesssully
Soon afterward cam. an artificial
eagle which Johann Muller. Bishop %,
Rstisbon and noted German math.-
marician and astronomer. built at N,sr.m-
burg during the. generation I,,s, pr.ced
ing Cohinbu-'s discovery of America
This aeroCirom. i. rrpu,ed tn have flown
out to meet the Emperor Charles V and 10
have accoppani.,t him hack To town
In Isin AN ov,o,;,, .xh;h,,,o, ~. No.
-, r. 49,. :. - ~.
WI NV 'i''~'h' gu 'Hfh'~ ~
Oh Ho"tiahh ana MS court. the longiand
After III" court had all assembled the
prior mounted one of tbs. lofty hstr,.-
r,,,,g -, S,;rI; 81 =, -,
n-t' ''s ",'" ""''"-" an
e'ap'' ave- arrangement {" wings ana
feathers Then h" leap"d forth and fell
ingloriously into IN. dunuhiI
The p,rfcrn,nc. Of . Turkish ,vioto,
xa. witnessed a, rons,an,irr,,,,, -, ,,,,
AZ o"-'ah'Ih"pr" III the
latter part of the sixteenth century by
the Flemish scholar and diplomati-t
RIShe, tI52a- OF, who a, rho tim. wa. IN.
,,h..sa,,or -, E.-,,,,.,, ,h,
w ii 'h'
'atI,"'-
The seventeenth century was pro-
life of flying machines a writer as.,Ir.s
lis and one of liz .rthu.;,.ts ,,r IN. s,,h
TO-, -, -, at. -. So.
49, W ''ai' nIEh' was 'ohh "hSihs.
i<'ru blshnp "l h"-t" ana hrst PRESIDENT
Of IN. British Royal society. who believed
that a race Of bird mon could no c-e,,.,,
hy svx,.,,atic tr,,,,nc
re '""' "ou'" erect anything IN TINS
way, saId this authority. must he
brought no to tho constant Dract,re Of
II rrrrn n : vo,t,h irving Nr., ori,. .,
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'S w -'.i ~! ~ ''' - on ny
.'i ,,' ''Nh.' uh'H me- -hiH
~, .'l'' NH r''" '"I'''''rI"
,"'h 'r'A''' t'-p-
'"iN W. ","I~ ~ ""' ~ our hat'oh
ua 'n -'', ia' w IN experiment
mat y" Wa "''' ny 'n- n"Ip OF wing
vi -".L' " I".e W ~',p 'o,l~'aitS ION IN"
Ei''hp' -" H"','H ~ '""
NhH l'iu9 w. nhNr I~o mo haH cen
Iurl.G hE" a ,'|,. ing i iIf.h r,"h "a
li-'-s' ~ r'''i' N'''N ~ ''''''h'hai herring
ah' ",nrrH ,
uHhR "iSh' '9il w" >teeph- OF NJ
MAR. ~ N"hi'" : mentioned
me I.Iu n'rn"', hu' history does
hp' i"fp.' udt' ~" nam" OF ne aviator
Mnp E"r'"riI.T, w" IN" -an',
ahthn'i'E u'h'"Ii- aho'rsr unnamed
man VINO r''ane mikht az Nur-ihnsrg 'ht
-hi" 'nH ir"m Nn,'h n'~h"p MULLER
rrt ,laI 'hH' went ""' !" meet the
vi
YIN. 81 vi uhps' ".,c', nru men oi this
nm" wa f"a'd. "a tiShtror" performer
NJ" tH""r'o ~ france aho'!t ING"
" 'as'hS wings u" 'n'H', n,linher Of
lheh'' lrnrn NatlpuS h"iRhrs hn Will"
l"Ti N!imlhH ,''"e i'nhi- NV u" GOT "a
ISb lhi aft r'rNi5 10 nave thercupOn