AN AIR SHIP.
Nature records a remarkable ascent from Nashville in an air ship, consisting of » cigar-shaped silken bag, 42ffc long and 16ft wide, enclosed in a netting which is attached to a beam. Ten foet below the beam a Bftddle was suspended, with pedals like * bicycle, by which a four-bladed propeller, 10ft in the rear of the aeronaut, is turned. . After the ship had risen to the height of about 500 ft, the aeronaut turned completely round to show that the prdpeller was n> order. He continued rising till he warout of sight, and propelled the machine in a direction diagonally to the wind at tho rate of ten or twelve milos an hour. After travelling about fifteen miles, he returned to within four miles of the city ; but he had to rise and fall so many times that the supply of gas became exhausted, and also one of the blades of the propeller broke, so that he descended. On the faith of oar scientific contemporary, we accept this record ; bat it smacks exceedingly of a clas« of achievements manufactured by the transj atlautic Press, of which the " supply of gas never becomes exhausted.
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9836, 20 September 1897, Page 4
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195AN AIR SHIP. Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9836, 20 September 1897, Page 4
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