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The machine "heavier than air" is still only the dream of the airship enthusiasts. The discoverer of any principle or the inventor of any form of construction that will accomplish what the second Bird of Prey went to piece getting ready to do will reap a golden harvest of trophies. And it is more than suspected that such discovery or invention will demonstrate a development on lines hitherto not yet revealed even in germ. Perhaps a gentleman of the name of Moses, in New York, has struck such an idea. He announces startling departure, surely, from anything heretofore exemplified when he proposes to "blow up" his airship. His machine may be of any design compatible with the convenience of the passengers or best available for freight according to the service it may be required to perform. Fancy may indulge itself at great lengths in respect to model, but the lifting apparatus is markedly simple. His ship is to be equipped with air chambers from which will project funnels, like the trumpets of so many talking machines linked together. At the start the trumpets will be pointed downwards. The air from the chambers being exploded through them will push against the Earth and the ship is expected to mour[?] gayly into the air. It seems likely that this result, or some other, might ensue. Perhaps careful calculations would be required lest the earth be pushed away from the airship by the trumpet blasts, thus leaving the airship stationary. Negatively, of course this would amount to the same thing so far as the airship was concerned but it might prove inconvenient for the earth.
There is no dynamic doubt that explosions of air, or other gases, and certain familiar substances can set things skyward, with or without the intervention of trumpets better direct the force. After the ship is clear of the earth, as the inventor points out, some of the trumpets may turned this way or that, to direct the blowing of the ship about whither the aeronaut may please to be blown. The inventor figures on an experimental ship one hundred and fifty feet long by fifty feet beam, built of steel to weigh two hundred and fifty tons. This is a mere detail, however, since quite evidently, the ship may be of a size and any weight, provided it is equipped with air chambers and trumpets enough to blow it as high as desired and thence on its course. Everyone will wish to see Mr. Moses give his idea a practical test.

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