FROM LONDON TO NEW YORK IN A DAY.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4586, 15 September 1883, Page 2

FROM LONDON TO NEW YORK IN A DAY.

An aerial trip from London to New York in twenty four hoars. Such a feat can harJly be said»to have been dreamt of before, and certainly never entered into our philosophy prior to the experiments ! recently made in Paris, where a new I aerostat has been tried with most remark- ! able results. The aerostat is cigar shaped. At either end is a fan affixed to a transversal shaft worked by a five-horse power, engine. The engine emits neither sparks nor flame. It works the fan between 700 and 800 revolutions a minute and has been found to impart an inc'red ible speed to the balloon, even when steered dead in the eye of the wind. The first experiments haying proved successful, and shown that balloons oonld. be made to move against atmospherical currents, the construction of the aerostat was improved upon. The cigar was divided internally by means of a transverse cloth bulkhead or deck, leaving the upper part for gas and the lower part for machinery and passengers. But this has again been improved upon, and pians have just been completed for the construction of a ; thin steel balloon with air tight compartments to be worked by horizontal, vertical, and centrifugal fans. This aerostat is designed to carry 1000 passengers, and to. make a journey between Paris or London and New York in less than twenty-four hours. The machinery has been designed, and will be constructed for tho inventor." | It may seem incredible, but it is neverthe> bss a fact, that balloons have been known , to travel at a considerably faster rate than , jit would he necessary to maintain in order

to travel from London to New York in 24 i hoars. There have been cases in which balloons have traversed the extraordinary distance of 200 miles an hour.