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1907. June 3-Monday. at Baddeck 52
Record Long Branch N.J.
31 Mar 1907.

FLYING MACHINES TO RACE.

Prof. Bell, Peter C. Hewitt, and the Wright Brothers in Prize Contest.

Prof. Alexander Graham Bell, Peter Cooper Hewitt, A. M. Herring, Israel Ludlow, and the Wright brothers will probably be competitors, it was stated last night at the meeting of the Aero Club of America at 12 East Forty-second Street, in a competition that has just been arranged for Sept. 14 at the Jamestown Exposition grounds at Norfolk, Va. The Wright bothers will use their improved flying machine of the heavier air type.  It is stipulated that the successful machine must fly at leat 1,000 feet and start under its own power. 

Prof. Bell, who has been experimenting with tetrahedral kites for several years, is building a flying machine to be composed of tetrahedral sections and equipped with a motor.  Mr. Cooper's machine is being built on pontoons for flights over the water.  Mr. Ludlow is making one of steel tubing, while Mr. Herring has practically completed a very light motor which will weigh barely 1 1/2 pounds per horse power. 

Post Washington DC

31 Mar 1907

AUTO AND AIR SHIP EXHIBIT

One of the Distinctive Features of the Jamestown Exposition.

Different Countries to Be Represented. 
All Will Be in Readiness Upon Opening Date.

Special to The Washington Post.

Norfolk, Va., Mar. 30.-Wheels, cranks, eccentrics, and old and new-fangled things mechanical will be seen in kaleidoscopic profusion at the Jamestown Exposition.

Transportation at one time was considered to include only those things relating to land and water traffic, such as railroads and merchant craft.  Under this head now is treated every kind of vehicle for land, air, and water.

This includes the automobile, the craft that follow the fishes under the sea, and these that soar with the birds in the air.  There will be a sufficient scattering of old-time vehicles to give one a better idea of the vast strides made, and far countries will be represented by the sample of their implements of carriage, such as the "dandy" of India and the jinricksha of Japan.

The steam turbine which is now being introduced in vessels of the largest class will measure its advantage of more direct applications of power and saving in friction over the reciprocating engine.  Boilers and furnaces of latest type will show what has been accomplished in capturing and utilizing the fullest amount of energy stored in the various kinds of fuel.  Electricity, the king of powers, will lend itself with the docility of a trained elephant, to the service of Lilliputian man.  This mysterious force held by its insignificant wire bonds will transform into magic keys the little buttons that but touched by a lad's finger start into life the ponderous machinery used in modern industry.

Automobiles of all classes will be exhibited, not only on the floors, but in operation, for from many parts tours are being arranged, that will take in the Virginia battlefields and other points of historic interest.  The racing machine will be shown beside the heavy trucks that promise to revolutionize city trucking methods and roadsters and touring cars and the lighter vehicles for city use.  Motor cycle and motor boats will be exhibited, and it is expected that there will be something of a boom in the motor boats for utilitarian purposes among farmers whose places are within easy boating access of markets.

Air ships, because of their novelty, are likely to be elaborate.  Aeronauts from all over the world are to hold a convention and bring with them their highflyers.  There will be long distance races, and attempts to break various kinds of records such as that for altitude and with the dirigibles of speed and control.  The inventors of flying machines will have their apparatus on hand and show what they have accomplished.

From progress to date it is believed

Secolo Illustrato Milan
31 Mar 1987
La corazzata aerea
Perchè la notizia viene dall'America, non bisogna gridare che è una fiaba.
Sarebbe poco gentile per gli abitanti del Nuovo Mondo e potrebbe anche darsi che si trattasse d'una cosa delle più serie.
Non dimentichiamo che l'inventore del parafulmine, di cui recentemente si festeggiò il bicentenario, era un americano e si chiamava Benjamino Franklin. E pensiamo inoltre, che Fulton, al quale, insomma, dobbiamo la navigazione a vapore, era anch'esso un yankee; e lo è pure Edison, inventore del fonografo.
Accogliamo dunque la notizia con tutta l'attenzione rispettosa che merita, tanto più che il costruttore della corazzata aerea è un uomo già conosciuto nei due emisferi: Luigi Gathmann, inventore del cannone che porta il suo nome.
In che consiste la sua invenzione della quale, fin d'ora, si dice che causerà una rivoluzione nell'arte della guerra?
Ecco una breve descrizione di questa formidabile macchina.
Si tratta d'una specie di torricella costruita in acciaio, la quale, trasportanda parecchi canoni di lunga portata può inalzarzi nell'aria e muoversi in una data direzione.
In altri termini è << un più pesante che l'aria >> capace di vomitar la morte su una città assediata, rimandendo al sicuro dai proiettili lanciatigli contro.
E tale è il caso dell'aerial warship di Luigi Gathmann.
Si comprenderà il perchè non possiamo dare, a propositio del suo apparecchio, che dei dettagli poco abbondanti ed anche imprecisi.
L'invenzione è stata vendata al ministero della Guerro degli Stati Unit

Press Pittsburg Pa
31 Mar. 1907
Mache That Flies Like
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The Wright Brothers
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