Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-03-11
a New FIyina Machine.


A New Flying Machine.
The invention of "A remarkable new
aeroplanc. 4eapable OF being arrested il
its flight and held stationary at any
point desired, is announced by the Der
lin Tagliche Rundschau, a paper ii
closest touch with German aviation cir
cles. The new aeroplane, it asserts, Is
constructed on principles hitherto unap-
piled to aviation, and is equipped Will
two sets of motive apparatus, one a
propeller to give it its forward horizontal
motion, and the other set of four TO
tary lateral planes or wings to lift il
into the air. These planes, which are
driven by three motors of $50 horsepower
each, are said to have sufficient power
to lift the aeroplane directly from the
ground into the air without any pre-
liminary run to gain momentum. They
are so constructed further that they eX-
pand or fold up automatically, thus eX-
posing a greater or smaller surface OF
resstancc6 10 the air according as the
aeroplane bis descending or rising. Al
that the pilot has : TO do 10 arrest his
flight at e certain point is II stop the
propeller which gives the machine its
impulse forward. when the aeroplane
will remain stationary for an indefinite
length of slime. The four rotary planes
or sail propellors. which are compared
in appearance to Japanese umbrellas,
are anixea to a boat-shaped cabin or
sondola
According to the Tagliche Rnndschau.
which STATES that officials Of the Ger
man War sofficc have been watching the
progress Of the invention since 1860, the
aeroplane can develop a speed Of S6 miles
an hour, and can ascend To a height of
1900 feet in about three minutes.
The invention, it is said, has been de-
veloped beyond the experimental stage.
and aeropIanes Of the new kind will so1n
be in course of construction.
The paper. which publishes these de-
tails as absolutely authentic and with
no hint of reservations as to their prob
ability. cmfesses that il already has
agreeable anticipations of the day when
one of thcs new aeroplanes, lowering over
a dreadnoUght i'm the North Sea. will be
gin to drop explosives into its funneIs,--
Current literature.
There has been great change in the
nature Of typawriting speed contests
since the famous meeting of August.
1883. Whit at first II might seem that
little Improvement In speed had been
made since that time the Phonogra phie
World points out that there has been
a great change for tie better.
This charge has heen cue partly 10
mechanical improvement in typewrit-
ers IN the course Of a quarter of a
century and partly TO q better appre-
citation of syhal is expected of the type
writer operator.
In October. 1883. this magazine pre-
seized reproduction Of typewritine
wlHeh had Won in The contest held a
fex Wfeks earker The text of the
rnf9rer written was that exceedingly
vah8lle literary gem; This is a song
tofili thee with delight This is a song
10 MI thee with delight. This is song
sto GllAIhee with delight This is a.
HID I'LL &Nriting starts out something
4 10 LII s.This isa song To fiji the ew
~ 0leE51t This Is song to fill thee
Il ll6{3ght This is son 10 fill thee
Mt deal OF allowance must be
nee xsarily for mechanical de-
{9Nl{ t&fn generation. But after
Il Ii BtAhe There must be taken into
: tlffg reconsideration the greater deVel-
opment of the habit of accuracy in the
same period of time.
1t must be remembered that deduc-
lions for errors are greater today than
evesehefore and many items which at
That time we're not regarded rs errors
AtEall now come within the limit Of
4he penalty.
4 The prize winner ut Toronto in 1883
Ear example made seven remarkable
errors in writing the first two lines
Nineteen errors We're. under the rules
in vogue ri that time. counted against
the operator. The penalization under
modern conditions would have been
far greater than that
About the same time, at Lake
George Frank f, McGurrln wrote:
Five minutes from dictation 55t
words gross, "a net. a mel average of
los A. words a inmate.
Five minutes from dictation 80
words gross, so words net. 4 net av
erage of % words Il minute.
Fonr minutes 40 seconds from dicta-
ton sos words gross, 49S net "A net aV-
erage of 107 words 4 minute.
Writing bIindfolded from dictation
100 words in one minute. gross l07 a.
net.
This was done on genuine court mat
ter, such as was dictated to the short
hand contestants at the Hotel Wander
bilt IN August Of this year Unfortu
nately there are no typewriter pages
of this work AT hand To compare with
the work done by Miss Wilson at Seat
tie. where the little champion wrote
not for five minutes, bit for an hour at
a. net rate of l15 words minute, max
ing something less than one error for
each hundred words. many of the err
rors made being immaterial from the
viewpoint Of any business man.
Chelsea Grange.
Chelsea Grange held its regular meet