El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-09

: morning in plenty of time Tor an
I o'clock breakfast This is the belief Of
! one of the shrewdest and most careful
I afithmeticians among the scientific
/ minds of today. I refer to DR.. AleXan-
/ der Graham Bell, the inventor of the
I telephone, who for the past 20 years has
/ been connected with every movement
/ in the direction of aerial navigation.
| 125 Miles an Hour.
DR.. Bell has what might be called the
! scientific imagination, and his deduc-
/ tons deal with possibilities far be-
yond those of the ordinary inventor.
His mind works along scientific lines.
/ and its flights at times make the head
of the layman buzz to comprehend
I them Dr. Bell said:
/ '@The shortest distance between New
I foundland and Ireland is less than 1000
/ miles and the fastest speed record of a
/ heavier-than-air machine was made by
/ James J. Vedrines N a Deperdussin
J aerOdrome on the 9Th of September
last His speed was over 107 miles an
/ hour, Now let US suppose that that
machine could keep q speed of even
100 miles an hour, and it would cross
the Atlantic ocean with 20 hours
IF the flight were made from Amer
lea 20 Europe we would have the winds
to help US along, and this would give
US an additional velocity of at least 25
miles per hour as the general trend or
our winds is from west to east Adding
this to the 100 miles, we have a speed
of 125 miles an hour. at which rate we
hours. If we left Newfoundland at
high noon we might be landed in Ire
land at 4 o'clock in the morning, giving
US four hours margin for our s o'clock
breakfast or, during the summer
months, we might start with the rising
of the sun at 4 in the morning and be
on the Irish coast in time for dinner
at o'clock in the evening All of that
ride would be in the daylight and we
should be landed the same day we
started"
Rapid Flight at High Attitudes.
Is there possibility that one might
go even quicker than that, DR.. Bell2"
Yes, replied the scientist, but l
do not wish to be quoted as saying
anything more definite than that fly
ing machines should be able TO cross
the ocean in single day. I have no
doubt that a drOme will increase its
speed in the rarer air high above
ground, but whether this increase will
be strictly prOpOrtiOnate to the di-
minuuOn of density is a point that
am not yet prepared to assert. The
winds are also more steady there than
at the ground
Mountain Sickness Overcome.
But, DR.. Bell, would it be possible
for man to cross the Atlantic at 5000
feet elevation / once went up, in the
Andes to an altitude of 1850 feet At
that height I had a bad attack of
SOrOche, or mountain sickness"
That can be easily. prevented" said
the scientist. "Au that you need is to
nave YOUR place III the uldEuLIlG SO Gov
cred at the sides and back that you get
the air only from the trent Your sick
ness on the Andes was caused by the
thinness and rarity of the air 1t was
not dense enough to give you your
usual amount Of oxygen. This is avoided
by the speed of the flying machine,
which goes so fast that it condenses the
air within the hood. and gives you air
to breathe Of practically the same quail
ity as that you had when leaving the
ground
This density will vary with the
speed of your machine, and no matter
will be just what you need. At 5000
feet you are in air which is half the
density of that near the ground. but
your speed is double that which you
had at the ground, and so the density
Of the air which you are breathing is
lust the same"
How High Man Can Fly.
But can flying machines go to a
height Of 10000 feet2" I asked.
They have done so and better. The /
highest altitude reached by an Ameri- /
can is only a little over a mile, but in /
Europe the aerOdrome records have /
some very remarkable flights. June 80 /
Of that year Lieut. Glatchke assembled /
from Vienna, taking a passenger with /
him. to a height greater than the top
Of Pixies Peak He went UP more than
1900 feet, which was almost 1000 feet
above all the records preceding. Sep
TENDER II, 1912, George Legagneux
made a new altitude record of 1876 /
feet That was over 1000 feet higher 1
than Mount Blanc, and more than 5000
feet above Fujiyama, Japan The