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1907 February 22 Friday at Baddeck Herald New York 1 Jan 1907 AERO CLUB CONDUCTS TEST AT ST. LOUIS Finds Western City can Supply Required Quality of Gas for Coming Races [SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD.] St. Louis, Mo. Monday. After a preliminary test, in which a small balloon was sent up from the Laclede Gas Company's plant, at Second and Rutger streets, this afternoon, the special committee of the International Aero Club, through its secretary, Augustus Post, announced that St. Louis can supply gas of the required quality for the cup races to be held in October. The balloon was ten feet in diameter and contained 523 cubit feet of gas. It required seven minutes to fill the small balloon to-day from a two inch main. the silk bag rose rapidly when released and sailed northeast. It was lost to view in the smoke in a few minutes. Attached to it was a card with the inscription: -"Reward for the return of this balloon by express, C.O.D. to L.D. Dozier, president of the Aero Club of St. Louis, care of the Business Men's League. Late to-night Mr. Bishop and Mr. Smith made the positive statement that the races would take place in this city on a date yet to be selected, probably in October. Tribune New York 1 Jan 1907. DR. THOMAS'S NEW MACHINE Planned to Ride, Glide, Slide, Float and Fly. Dr. Julian P. Thomas, the aeronaut, has taken out a license in New Jersey for a combination automobile, air ship, motor boat, ice yacht and auto-sled. The new machine will be tested somewhere in New York next Sunday. The license has been issued by Inspector Gallagher in Jersey City, and the number is 25,583, the numerals of which total twenty-three. When the attention of the navigator of the air was directed to this he smiled and said he feared no hoodoo. Dr. Thomas said yesterday that, in place of power being connected to the wheels, as is the case of the automobile, it is connected with fan by a propellor. The machine is propelled on three wheels over the ground by this means, he said. Later he expects to attach aeroplane surfaces to the mechanism, so as to make the machine fly and be absolutely dirigible at the same time. The steering of the new combination automobile and flying machine is done from the rear because the propellor when put at a certain angle will lift the front wheel from the ground. Tribune New York Scranton PA 1 Jan 1907 ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Describes with Some Detail the Ohio Flying Machine Boston Dispatch to the N.Y. Times At a meeting today of the National Academy of Sciences, held in the Harvard Medical school, Prof. Alexander Graham Bell declared that a practical flying machine had been invented by the Wright brothers, of Dayton, O. He said that Prof. Langley was the first discoverer of a machine heavier than air that would fly, or rather, soar, a feat accomplished as long ago as 1896[[?]] with a small experimental machine. Langley's later and larger machine, designed to prove his principles on a practical scale, was never launched. This, he said, disposed of the unjust record that Langley's airship failed. There was a hitch in the preparatory stages of the experiment, and Dr. Langley died soon afterward. Orville and Wilbur Wright, of Dayton, succeeded in October, [[?]], he says, in flying for a quarter of a mile, cutting circles and figure 8's in the air with a machine weighing 1,025 pounds, fuel and all. they are working, said Prof. Bell, on the principle enunciated by Lillienthal, but have added motors and aerial propellers. They fly at a rate of about thirty-seven miles an hour, and their machine will not stay up at a slower rate. It was the great risk of fatal injuries to the operator traveling at such great speed that induced Dr. Bell to seek a safer principle. former New York January - 1907 cessfully and at small cost. The cylinders of liquid gas may, of course, be used repeatedly until they are discharged. Among the great engineering works planned and to be executed as a part of the development of New York city, mention should be made of the scheme for the provision of the future water supply of the metropolis from the Catskill region. This plan involves the construction of twelve reservoirs in various parts of the district, an aqueduct sixty miles in length, a tunnel under the Hudson River, and an expenditure of more than $160,000,000, a larger sum than that estimated necessary for the construction of the Panama Canal. The plans assume the provision of more than 500,000,000 gallons of water per day, this being in addition to the present Croton supply of 300,000,000 gallons daily, the proposed new aqueduct delivering the water from the Catskills to the edge of the Croton water-shed. Although the surveys have been completed and much of the preliminary work laid out, the undertaking is so extensive that its completion is a long way off, and probably the supply will be greatly needed even before it is available. It is significant, however, that the engineering works involved in the growth of a great city are as great, both in cost and importance, as the national and international undertakings about which much more is said and concerning which non-technical readers may be led to form opinions altogether disproportionate to their relative importance. During the past few months the interest in aeronautics has been increasing, and some very interesting experiments have been made. I mentioned in the last review the fact that M. Santos-Dumont had turned his attention from the dirigible balloon to the aeroplane, and since that time he has made several successful flights. His machine consists essentially of a combination of several box kites of the Hargrave type, the general form being that of the letter T, the apparatus being supported, while on the ground, upon light bicycle wheels, permitting a forward movement until the speed becomes sufficiently great to cause the apparatus to ride up on the air like a kite. Experience has demonstrated that there are two essentials which must be provided for before the aeroplane can become a practical success. The first of these is a motor of such light weight that it shall not be an excessive burden upon the supporting power of the aeroplane surfaces. The second point is one rather of design and operation than of actual construction - the command of equilibrium. When it is remembered how difficult the beginner finds it to balance himself in his first attempts to ride on a bicycle, it may, perhaps, be (over) American New York Jan 1907 Cincinnati Wants Balloon Race Cincinnati, Dec. 31-Members of the Associated Organizations, the Business Men's Club and other commercial bodies took up the matter to-day of inviting the Aero Club of America to select Cincinnati as the starting point for the International balloon races next Fall. The Union Gas and Electric Company offers to furnish 2,000,000 feet of gas free to the balloonists.
