Show B BOA 0 A T A AND ND BA BALLOON LL 0 ON INVENTS MACHINE TO CONQUER AIR AND SEA vessel built with wings like a bird and can keep on water for days at a time craft patented in six countries 4 Dro brooklyn oklyn A combination boat and balloon badloo a thing that shall sail on the water and then by letting go a little ballast rise like a bird to any height from which to drop alit B neet a nautical freak both fish and bird la what A perry balven of brooklyn claims to have invented ile he declares lie ho has patented his invention in six countries and says that it if it were not mechanically patents would not have been granted by so many governments mr bilven has been it a working inventor for 40 years ile he Is considered an expert on boiler and marine engineering gi ho he la Is also a yacht design er and professes to have sold two steamship patents for each mr air bliven says that ho he has refused an offer of for the airship patent aud and that negotiations are now pending between the syndicate of owners and european capitalists for the sale of the foreign patents for 1760 1750 or a pro rata value for each country while the north american patents are being put into a trust at a valuation of the ship consists 0 of a buix bu cotes o ra s shaped ped I 1 silk hog e en abr in an aluminum cover this tests on a small hull shaped like a boat though with twice the amount of beam generally allowed a boat propellers on the side of the hydrogen bag and a propeller at the stern of the hull drive the bird boat forward illuminating gas gag Is used for fuel and the propellers are reversible so that the boat can be turned quickly As aa all the weight of the craft la is in the hull bull and the lifting awer Is aloft the airship should keep right side up when ben in flight also the side pro idlers elers have a steadying effect based n tho the mechanical principle of the aro wheel tho the boat can be made to rise by acting atting out water ballast tor for hull and lag ag weigh less than the air displaced rho rhe ship can be brought back to tho the vater by letting out some of the hydrogen gas gaa in the bag the upper part or egg shaped du minum balloon according to the latalla of construction contains hydro on en gas of a lifting power 15 16 per cent reater than Is required to raise ali tho weight of the boat the balloon to Is put into the aluminum frame through manholes while in a state of collapse when the gas has been pumpe pumped id in the apertures aper tures the aluminum covers aro are sealed so that no gas gaa can escape below the aluminum body to is the hull which contains a cabin engine room two apartments for kerosene two for water ballast and cubic feet of illuminating gas As illuminating lumina ting gas also has great lifting fitting power the work of the hydrogen bag Is s made easier in order not to make the boat too light the water ballast la Js carried in sufficient quantity to offset the lifting power of the illuminating 9 gas as As the gas Is used up the water ballast IB Is allowed disallowed to run out the kerosene Is kept on hand in order that fuel will bo be ready should the illuminating gas escape the hull bull of the boat Is made watertight alq an seaworthy its supporting power being five times the weight of the bag cabin engines ballast and other parts directly over the side propellers pro and attached to the aluminum egg are wide wings sloping as those of a bird this the inventor contends if tho the hydrogen gas should escape would serve as a parachute and prevent tho the boat from falling with dangerous velocity the inventor claims the following special advantages for the bliven airship it can be driven over the surface of the water for days at a time and then be made to rise by letting out the water ballast the form of the ship Is such that it can bo be driven through the air with the maximum amount of speed attainable by its engines by the arrangement of its screws it can he bo handled in air as readily as a modern steam yacht on the water it can take flights of many days owing to its space for crew provisions etc it can be constructed in any size elze up to feet in length having a ait from 0 pounds independent of its weight which means that its passenger capacity may be from three to men As an engine of war it would be terribly effective and for meteorological and geographical observations it would bo be invaluable the inventor has proved all his ideas lie ho says on a model airship five feet long he has obtained patents in the united states canada great britain franco and italy so far and he has made requisitions for patents in other lands |