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who sticks to the method, will start again in the er Roosevelt next July. Possibly it be a variant on the old story of the se and the rabbit. When the fast- g Wellman does reach the pole he find Peary already there. Star Washington D. C. 22 Apr -1907. NEW AIRSHIP ENGINE. Knabenshue Constructs 54-Pound Machine of 16-Horse Power. TOLEDO, Ohio, April 22.-After an entire winter's work A. Roy Knabenshue has at last succeeded in his efforts to build the most wonderful air engine ever constructed. It is the engine which Knabenshue is using in his new airship built to carry two or more people. The engine is built entirely upon new and original lines, and is particularly wonderful because it weighs only 54 pounds, and generates by actual tests from 12 to 16-horse power. Remarkable Feat When it is remembered that the actual gas engine of that size weighs from 300 to 1,000 pounds, the full extent of this creation can be realized. Naturally enough Knabenshue is jealous of his proud achievement and many of the details of its construction he refuses to give out. However, he has sanctioned the publication of a few general facts concerning the engine. The engine is of a two-cycle pattern, and runs nicely at 100 revolutions a minute. The engine is valveless, and starts absolutely without fail with a half a turn. It will work with any carbureter. One of the features of the engine is the spark coil, which is almost a freak. The coil instead of containing as do most coils two windings of wire, a primary and secondary, contains six windings, the last five of which are looped in series with a battery of condensers. Other Inventions The carbureter throttle and spark timer are also inventions of Knabenshue. The oil lubricator is different from most others in that it sends the lubricant into the machine with the gas mixture. So powerful is the engine that it requires a great deal of experimenting to so fasten it in the frame of the ship that it would not tear itself away. This difficulty was finally overcome by supporting it with angle irons braced and counterbraced to the wooden frame of the airship, which is reinforced with steel pipe several feet either way from the engine. Inquirer Philadelphia 22 Apr - 1907. WONDERFUL NEW AIRSHIP ENGINE Roy Knabsenhue Constructs 54-Pound Machine of 16-Horse Power Consists of Many Improvements and Additions to Any Engine Hitherto Used in Aeronautics Special to The Inquirer. TOLEDO, Ohio, April 21.-After an entire winter's work A. Roy Knabenshue has at last succeeded in his efforts to build the most wonderful air engine ever constructed. It is the engine which Knabenshue is using in his new airship built to carry two or more people. The engine is built entirely upon new and original lines, and is particularly wonderful because it weighs only fifty-four pounds, and generates by actual tests from 12 to 16-horsepower. Remarkable Feat When it is remembered that the actual gas engine of that size weighs from 300 to 1,000 pounds, the full extent of this creation can be realized. Naturally enough Knabenshue is jealous of his proud achievement and many of the details of its construction he refuses to give out. However, he has sanctioned the publication of a few general facts concerning the engine. The engine is of a two-cycle pattern, and runs nicely at 100 revolutions a minute. The engine is valveless, and starts absolutely without fail with a half a turn. It will work with any carburetor. One of the features of the engine is the spark coil, which is almost a freak. The coil instead of containing as do most coils two windings of wire, a primary and secondary, contains six windings, the last five of which are looped in series with a battery of condensers. The carburater throttle and spark timer are also inventions of Knabenshue. The oil lubricator is different from most others in that it sends the lubricant into machine with the gas mixture. powerful is the engine that it re[[quir]]es a great deal of experimenting to so sten it in the frame of the ship that [[it w]]ould not tear itself away. This difficulty was finally overcome by support it with angle irons braced and countraced [[counterbraced]] to the wooden frame of the air which is reinforced with steel pipe al feet either way from the engine. 500 persons. Because a parachute work property he nearly lost his life. He has gone up fully 2,000 feet when he prepared to descend. Grasping the parachute, which he had never tried before, he let himself go, expecting it to open by the time he had dropped 100 feet. It failed, however, and the balloonist shot down with great rapidity. The crowd did not at first realize that something was wrong, but when it was seen that the parachute had not opened every one expected Mack would be dashed to death. When, however, he was about 600 feet from the ground the parachute flared open, and, with the aeronaut hardly retaining his hold after the sudden stop, it swung back and forth, and with gradually lessening speed descended on the Erie tracks at Washington Avenue. Mack was found lying on the ground. He tried to get up, but his legs gave way under him, and he had to be taken back to the park in a wagon. He is still suffering from the effects of the flight. A girl was to have made an ascent from the park, but the management decided not to let her go up, as her father had sent word from Camden that she had run away from her home there last Saturday, and that she was not yet sixteen years old. Herald New York 22 Apr - 1907 [[image]] HE SARATOGA CLUB-SARATOGA.-N.Y.-MAIN ROOM. PHOTO. rsistent Report Circulated That His Club House in Saratoga Will Be Ready for Season. LLMAN NOT A FACTOR NOW
