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1907. June. 14. Friday at Baddeck. [[strikethrough]] 68 [[/strikethrough]] 128 [[?]] Mountain 30 Ap-1907 Butte Montana START BALLOON TRIP TONIGHT. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS. St. Louis, April 30-Aeronaut McCoy, at 10 o'clock this morning, having been informed by the weather bureau that air currents from the west now prevailed, began arrangements to start his proposed balloon flight to Washington in the balloon America. Captain Chas. D. Chandler, United States signal corps, will accompany him. The start will be made tonight. Reporter Dobbs Ferry NY 30 Ap- 1907. Tuesday, April 30. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, said at London that it was only a question of a brief period when the progress of aerial navigation would make it possible to have dinner in America and breakfast the next morning in Europe. Globe. Boston. 29 Apr- 1907. Balloon Ascension Postponed St LOUIS, April 28-The balloon ascension to have been made in St Louis tonight by Capt Charles Chandler U.S. signal corps, and J.C. McCoy New York city was postponed. It was decided to wait for a strong west wind. Capt Chandler and McCoy desiring to try to land near Washington. Capt Chandler is testing the adaptability of balloons for use by the government in war. Tribune New York 30 Ap - 1907. TWO HUNDRED MILES AN HOUR. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell is said to have expressed the belief that within a few years the world will see an airship capable of travelling from one hundred and fifty to two hundred miles an hour, and also that the United States will be the first country in the world to develop a "practical aerial battleship," for which we shall not have to wait very long. Perhaps Dr. Bell did not mean to be taken seriously, and perhaps he was not accurately reported. We are sure that nobody expects to see Admiral Evans's fleet go out of commission this year or next or looks for any interruption of the government's present programme of naval construction. If, however, it was the intention of the inventor of the telephone to predict that America would eventually produce a better airship for certain kinds of military service—observation, photography and perhaps the dropping of torpedoes—than has yet been evolved in Europe, his forecast, so far as it applies to war, will seem fairly reasonable. In that case discussion of the views he is credited with entertaining may properly be confined to the question of how fast it will ever be feasible to go with a flying machine. A close parallel to the problem of developing high speed in the air is furnished by experience on the water. In both cases the chief resistance is offered by friction with the element in which the screw propellers of a craft—airship or ocean steamship—work. Now, at sea every attempt to gain in velocity involves a disproportionate increase in the power required. A hint of this difficulty may be found by comparing the Deutschland and the Kaiser Wilhelm II, vessels of about the same size. The former has engines capable when new of developing 36,000 horsepower and enabling the steamship to attain twenty-three and a half knots an hour. The other vessel has engines developing 40,000 horsepower, and though her designer's ambition was apparently not realized to the utmost he did not expect her to beat her rival by more than half a knot. Here is another illustration: The battleships of the Virginia class displace 15,000 tons, and the capacity of their engines is 19,000 horsepower, or about one and a quarter horsepower to a ton. The destroyers of the Bainbridge class displace a little more than 400 tons and have engines developing 8,000 horsepower, or nearly twenty horsepower to a ton. Yet by an enormous increase in the ratio of power to size—fifteen or sixteen fold—the government gains about 50 per cent in speed. The Virginia develops nineteen knots and the Bainbridge twenty-nine. Even by reducing the size of the hull and filling a vessel entirely with machinery, the attainment of a speed of fifty knots is apparently out of the question, if established prece- Herald New York 30 Ap - 1907. Professor Bell on Aeronautics. That the problem of sailing the air has been solved and that the age of flying machines is here are some of the statements made by Professor Alexander Graham Bell in an interesting interview cabled from London this morning to the Herald. Before long, he thinks, you will have your letters delivered by aerial post. Commercial New York 30 Apr 1907 Dr. Alexander Graham Bell predicts that we soon shall have made such progress in air ships that it will be possible to take breakfast in Europe and dinner in America. Good-it will great satisfaction to European travelers to come home to dinner every day and escape that terrible foreign table d'hote. Herald New York 30 Ap - 1907 AERIAL FLIGHT SURE TO COME -ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL. - Inventor of the Telephone, in London, Discusses Flying Machine Problem. - GIVES CHANUTE CREDIT - Declares That Chicago Man Is To Be Thanked for America's Advancement in Navigation of Air. - DEFENDS LANGLEY'S EFFORTS - Asserts Governments Will Use Successful Machines in War and Wealthy Men Will Want Them. - [SPECIAL CABLE TO THE HERALD.] Herald Bureau, No. 49 Avenue de L'Opera, Paris, Monday. London, Monday.—That the problem of aerial navigation is already solved and that America is in advance of the rest of the world in heavier than air flying machines are some of the statements made by Professor Alexander Graham Bell in the course of an interview to-day. Professor Bell has come to England especially to receive the degree of Doctor of Science, which is to be conferred upon him by Oxford next Thursday. He and Mrs. Bell went to Oxford this afternoon in an automobile and returned in time for dinner after a fine run. He said the problem of navigating the air has been solved by the Wright brothers, of Dayton, Ohio. Gives Chanute Credit. Mr. Bell gives great credit to Octave Chanute, of Chicago, author of "Progress in Flying Machines," to whose efforts and inspiration he says much of the progress made in America is due. "Aerial navigation is no longer in the problematical stage," continued Professor Bell. "Wright brothers have succeeded in accomplishing it. The age of the flying machine is not one that belongs to the distant future, but it is here now. There is left only the question of improving the machine that has been invented. No, I have not seen the machine of the Wright brothers fly, but I credit fully the testimony of Mr. Chanute, made to me not long ago. To Mr. Chanute should be given a great amount of credit for what has been accomplished in this direction in America. He started the experiments with the flying machine over there. He reproduced the gliding machine of Lilienthal and induced several young Americans, among them Herring and the Wright brothers, to experiment with it. "Chanute is a man advanced in years and could not conduct the experiments, but paid out of his own pocket the expenses for experiments that have been made by
