. Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries. one for the driving propellers. The operator had good control in thetrials made at Coney Island, N. Y., but the ship was finally blown tosea and lost, 1889. 368. POWER FLYING MACHINE. Maxims type. The ap-pHcation of power to flying machines has been several times succ
. Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries. one for the driving propellers. The operator had good control in thetrials made at Coney Island, N. Y., but the ship was finally blown tosea and lost, 1889. 368. POWER FLYING MACHINE. Maxims type. The ap-pHcation of power to flying machines has been several times success-. fully tried. Professor Langleys aerodrome, which resembles an enor-mous bird of steel, was tried with much success in May, 1896. It roseeasily and soared in the air in large spiral curves of 100 yards diame-ter, reaching a height of about one hundred feet and moving abouthalf a mile. The steam then gave out and the propeller stopped,but the machine, instead of tumbling to the earth, settled slowly and ISO AIR-rOWER MOTORS AND APPLIANCES. gracefully downward and reached the surface without damage. Itsgreatest speed was nearly at the rate of twenty miles an experiments are still more interesting. He constructed aflying machine on a large scale, its total weight when loaded being8,000 pounds, this including engines, boiler, fuel, stores, and threepersons. The boat-like body was moved by a powerful propeller, andthe lifting mechanism consisted of a great aeroplane, with smallerones projecting like wings, the extreme width being 105 feet, length104 feet, total area 5,400 square
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