AN AIR SHIP.
The problem of aeriel navigation may now be regarded as solved, unless, that is, very misleading accounts have been published of the performances of the air ship which has been invented by a Brooklyn jeweller named Peter C. Campbell. The air ship is a balloon and flying ship combined. The gas bagds cigarshaped, sixty feet long and forty-two feet in greatest-diameter; and it is filled with hydrogen. Mr J.'K. Allan, the aeronaut who first went up in it declares that the machine ds: perfectly navigable in moderately calm weather. He found it possible not'merely to' steer a course, but also to rise and fall at will; and before starting ,■ on his voyage he went up to a height of 500 feet, and then without difficulty descended to his original position, just to show how completely 'the ship was under control. The propelling and steering machinery is worked by electricity. Mr Campbell’s invention has already made so deep an impression that , a company has been formed, with a capital of £200,000, to bring, the air ship before the notice of the public.—Cassell’s Journal.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1906, 20 June 1889, Page 4
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185AN AIR SHIP. Temuka Leader, Issue 1906, 20 June 1889, Page 4
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