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June 1, Saturday at Baedeck

Boston Mass.
-1907
[[?]] Roche, director of [[?]]ervatory, spoke before New York, the same  Developments in

Washington D.C.
Mar 1907.
no "air-ships" in those days, the [[?]] or old-fashioned balloon be- [[?]] of man's accomplishment toward the goal of human flight. A balloon ascension was always interesting to the public. In The Star of March 14, following account of such an

[[?]]-a-half street, in the vicinity was alive yesterday with out to see the balloon the balloon was inflated by a operation being necessarily a huge globe was seen for a long time in a numerous false alarms she goes!"  Finally, about shot skyward amidst shouts and outsiders.  A Mr. Amos Car- already had some pretty tall experiences, went up in lieu of who was prevented by illness in  The balloon rose gracefully, northeasterly direction in its trav- city folks a fine opportunity daring aeronaut stood erect in (which oscillated in a man- the looker-on dizzy) waving the by one hand and his hat by response to the shouts of spectators Carrier returned to this sub- in safety and without injury about dark last evening the vicinity of the old race

Bleu Brussels
Mar 1907
sub sole - La question de las des ballons aurait ete resolue il y a 44 ans.
special du "Petit Bleu".) annuel de l'Aero-Club d'Ame- eu lieu hier, M. Edgar Bron- un vif emoi et un etonne- en affirmant que le principe aerienne et de la dirigeable aerostats avait ete determine il un demi-siecle par un Dr Solo- qui est aujourd'hui parfaite-  M. Andrews avait construit ce un "aereon", bateau [[?]] gouvernail, qu'il lacha le 8 sep- a Perth Amboy, Etat de New- faisant decrire toutes les qu'il voulu.  L'inventeur comprime comme force motri- a produit de documents a dires.  Il a affirme, de plus, du secret de l'invention du laquelle permettait a son bal- de parcourir 120 milles (200) a l'heure;  mais ce secret, le divulguer, car il compte, faire lui-meme l'application.


Citizen Brooklyn,
17 Mar 1907
NEW STYLE AIRSHIP READY TO SAIL, DECLARES C.H. TOLIVER, INVENTOR

[[image: caption "NEW STYLED AIRSHIP" diagram of airship with labels (left to right) of engine room & conning tower, passage way, engine room, passage way, state room, passage way, engine room]]

Features of Toliver's Air Ship.
Cost, $72,000.
Time in building, seven years.
Style, cigar shaped.
Motive power, gas.
Weight, 7,100 pounds.
Length, 225 feet.
Diameter, 40 feet.
Carrying capacity, fifteen people.
Lifting power, 13,780 pounds.
It has six propellers driven by four gasoline engines.
It is divided into compartments including "conning towers" for lookouts, fore and aft.  Telephones connect the different departments.  
It is to sail this week.

Its 225 feet pongee cone filled with hydrogen gas, the great cigar-shaped thing straining restlessly at the ropes that hold it captive, Charles H. Toliver's flying machine is to-day ready for its first voyage from the inventor's shop at Pleasanton, Cal.
  "I have positively solved aerial navigation," says the inventor, a mysterious, dark-skinned, little-speaking and hard-to-approach man.  "I am betting my life and that of my wife, for she is going to make the initial ascent with me, that my idea is right.  For seven long years my assistants and I have [[?]] secretly in this canyon, keeping [[?]] watch over the ship day and night to hold off the spies.  To-day practically no one knows me, but to-morrow my name will be on every one's lips.  My ship will fly like a bird."
  Then the inventor's wife, a courageous bright hope in her eyes, spoke up:  "We have worked side by side on the great car," she said.  "Every stitch in the 5,800 yards of pongee was made by my fingers.  My husband's dreams have been my dreams.  We will succeed or fail together.  When the ship sails it will carry me with it."
  Toliver's airship is cigar-shaped, with the propelling mechanisms and "staterooms" on the inside of the pongee bag, instead of being attached to a frame suspended from the bag.  It measures 225 feet in length, with a diameter of 40 feet.  The frame is built of 18,000 feet of aluminum, made in sections.  The 5,800 yards of pongee that cover the frame have been covered with a preparation to make it air-tight and durable.
  Six propellers that project from the ends and sides of the ship are expected to give the bag its dirigibility.  Four engines drive the propellers, which are 8 feet in diameter and have 24-inch blades.
  And within the ship are rooms which the inventor has supplied with nautical names.  Two conning towers at both apexes of the airship serve for the "lookouts," who also operate the engines that drive the two end propellers.  At the base of each one are two engine rooms wherein are the engines and the men who control the two sets of propellers on the sides of the machine.  Amidships is the "main cabin," which is connected with the engine-room by narrow passageways.  All these rooms are compartments within the outer frame of the ship, partitioned off from the heart of the balloon, which contains the hydrogen gas.  A telephone station connects all the stations with the "main cabin."


Sun.  New York,
17 Mar-1907
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