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1907. June 14 Friday at Bardeck Port Express Rochester 29 Apr-1907. Air Navigation When the dirigible air conveyance is perfected, so as to be safe, swift and manageable for short or long distances above the solid earth, the greatest of all revolutions in locomotion will have begun. Scientific aeronauts who have been studying and inventing encourage us to say “when” instead of “if,” for they have come to regard the complete practical solution of the problem as only a question of time, and not a very long time either. In the experiments which have been made by Dr. Von Lendenfield of the Zoological Institute at Prague, under a grant from the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, one conclusion reaches is, that machines sustained by gases lighter than air are impracticable, and it is now generally conceded that the successful air machine will be in the application of some scientific principle involved in the flight of birds and insects. To this end Dr. Von Lendenfield and his assistants have been making, and are still making, careful investigations. They have established the fact that some property of air enables the larger and heavier birds to sustain their weight with comparatively much smaller wing surface; the larger the bird the smaller in proportion its wings. From this it has been worked out analogically that, given the secret of control of motion, a man weighing 200 pounds could sail through the air with a sustaining wing surface of about three quarter yards. Upon a principle of compressed air, therefore, may rest the solution of man’s flight above the earth; and there is apparently nothing in the air-sac system of birds which should prevent the construction of a flying machine on similar principles. the Prague scientists are now studying the four-winged insects. They seek facts enough and significant enough to establish a theory so firmly that it cannot be moved. Many other men in Europe and America are also experimenting on air crafts, some of them with enthusiastic hopes and confident predications. It is expected that a great impetus will be given to these aims by the Jamestown exposition. It is stated that air die [[?]] late inventions and contrivances of airship builders the world over are to be there, and will be tested in numerous competitions. What is wanted is a machine that, without any gaseous inflations, will move through the air as fast as an express train's speed, and enable us to go in any direction at will with or against the wind and land whenever and wherever we please. Post Express. Rochester 29 Apr 1907 TO CROSS SEA IN 20 HOURS [[cut off]] News-Springfield O. 29 Apr 1907. [[strikethrough]] 66 [[/strikethrough]] 126 Will Soon Eat Dinner in A[[?]] and Breakfast in Europe. LONDON, April 29.-Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the [[page cut off]] the telephone, is quoted in an interview which has appea [[page cut off]] saying that it was only a question of a brief period wh [[page cut off]] gress of aerial navitation would make it possible to hav [[page cut off]] America and breakfast the next morning in Europe, cover [[page cut off]] tance across the Atlantic in less than 20 hours. Dr. Bell said that he expected an airship would be pe [[page cut off]] able of making 150 to 200 miles and hour. He was also of [[page cut off]] that the next step in aerial flight would take the form o [[page cut off]] provements as would make possible the creation of aerial [[page cut off]] He was of the opinion that America would be the first cou [[page cut off]] fect aerial battleships. Star Newark N.J. 29 Apr-1907 GIANT BALLOON IN RACE The Eagle Covers 100 Miles but is Beaten by the Micromegas. PARIS, April 29.-The giant balloon The Eagle, which ascended from St. Cloud at 7:30 o'clock last night, landed near Blois at 10:30 this morning, having traveled 100 miles. The Micromegas, which is about ten times smaller than The Eagle, which ascended at the same time, traversed a distance of 192 miles. landing at Persac at 7:30 this morning. Thus the smaller balloon traveled ninety-two miles further than the larger, and did it in three hours' less time. The Micromegas, however, carried only one passenger, while The Eagle had ten men aboard. The latter was consequently unable to carry more than 400 kilos of ballast, and it was not expected that it would make a long journey. The ascent was witnessed by a large and fashionable gathering. Times Buffalo. 29 Apr-1907 N.Y. DINNER, AND LONDON BAEKFAST Dr. Bell, Inventor of the Telephone, Makes That Prediction for Aerial Navigation. By Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 29.-A London despatch to the Times quotes Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, as saying last night that it is only a question of a brief period when the progress of aerial navigation will make it possible to have dinner in America and breakfast the next morning in Europe, covering the distances across the Atlantic in considerably less than 20 hours. "My expnectations," said Dr. Bell, "is that an airship will be perfected capable of making 150 to 200 miles an hour. My opinion, however, is that the next step in aerial flight will take the form of such improveemnts as will take the form of such improvements as will make possible the creation of aerial battleships. "The actual problem of the navigation of the air has already been solved by the Wright brothers. Naturally there will be development along commercial lines, a feature of which will be a great increase in speed, but the most attention will be paid to adapting airships to the purposes of war. My belief is that America will be the first country to perfect aerial battleships. This belief is based on inside information and from the same source I get reliable statements on which I base my prediction of the early production of an airship of enormous speed. Aerial Experiments.
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