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[[image: left - photo captioned "END VIEW OF BALLOON"]]
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Roy Knabenshue's Machine Weighs but Fifty-Four Pounds, Creates Twelve to Sixteen Horse Power.

(SPECIAL DESPATCH TO THE HERALD.)
Toledo, Ohio, Sunday.-After an entire winter's work A. Roy Knabenshue has at last succeeded in his efforts to build the most wonderful gas 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 test from twelve to sixteen horse power.
When it is remembered that the actual gas engine of the size weighs from three hundred to one thousand 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 turn. It will work with any carburetor. One of the features of the engine is the spark coil, which is also a freak. The coil, instead of containing, as do most coils, two windings of wire, a primary and a secondary, contains six windings, the last five of which are looped in series with a battery of condensers.
The carburetor 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 required 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.