Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . d to meetthe pressure of variable gusts, and he made a great number oftrips in aeroplanes of this description. Herring continued theexperiments and added a motor. This was placed between twoof the exposed surfaces of the machine, and with its aid heactually succeeded in flying, but the flight only lasted a fewseconds, as the air was not sufficiently compressed. Hargrave was the inventor of a peculiar but excellent type of 110 AIKSHIPS PAST AND PKESENT. k
Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon . d to meetthe pressure of variable gusts, and he made a great number oftrips in aeroplanes of this description. Herring continued theexperiments and added a motor. This was placed between twoof the exposed surfaces of the machine, and with its aid heactually succeeded in flying, but the flight only lasted a fewseconds, as the air was not sufficiently compressed. Hargrave was the inventor of a peculiar but excellent type of 110 AIKSHIPS PAST AND PKESENT. kite, somewhat of the form of a hox. But the brothers Wrightfar outstrip everybody else, if the reports of their doings aretrue. The world was lately astonished at the news that theyhad formed a company in Paris, which was to buy their inventionfor the sum of £40,000, and place it at the disposal of theFrench War Office. The Wrights then stated, in answer toenquiries, that they were proposing to sell it for the summentioned in the report; but as a condition precedent to thesale, a trial run was to be made in the neighbourhood of Paris,. Fig. 63.—Starting an aeroplane. and wTas to show a speed of 30 miles an hour. Wilbur andOrville Wright are natives of Dayton, Ohio, and having enjoyeda good technical education and started a successful bicyclefactory, they turned their attention to the problem of had the help of Chanute, and followed Lilienthals planof mastering the art of floating before trying the effects of amotor. With a wind blowing at the rate of 26 ft. a second,they were able with their apparatus to maintain themselves fora while in the air. The experiments were carried out on thedunes along the shore of the Atlantic, where a steady wind blowsthe whole year round. FLYING MACHINES. Ill They first directed their attention to three points : (1) whetherit is better to let the driver stand or lie down; (2) whetherstability is better ensured by special steering de
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