AN AIR SHIP.

Dunstan Times, Issue 633, 5 June 1874, Page 3

AN AIR SHIP.

An air ship. with wings worked by steam, and capable of being driven 100 miles per hour has, it is said, been constructed at last. It is the production of olr L. P>. Hunt, a talented and an enterprising mechanic, of Auburn, State of New York, and is thus described in the Kew York Sun : —“The car destined to carry the passengers is of wood, 30ft long, Sft Irgli, and Sft wide. This is attached to the engine mom, 20ft above, by four wire cables, and the motive power is steam, one of Slisb\-'s rotatory 50 power engines being used. The engine is so constructed as to turn upright shafts, one within the other working in oppoite directions, to which wings made of sheet iron, slightly concave, are attached. These wings are tight in number—of a foot wide next the shaft, Gft at the extreme end, and 12ft long, being attached to the outer shaft ; and four of a similar shape ami of the same dimensions hchig attached to the innor shaft, 10ft alote tho other. When the machinery is srt in n - ."v!:n, Iheicwings lift the vessel, and the wh:l3 apparatus is steered by a sheot-iton iudder parallel to ihe shp't of the engine at the light cf the machine. 10ft long by sft wide. from the car to the top of the shaft the vessel measures sSft, and it has cost 12,030 dollars. It weighs s’ : tons, is capable of carry big six tons more, and trill afford accommodation for forty persons.'’ It should be observed, however, that no trial has yet,been made, alth ongh one is promised at an early date.