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Show ITALIAN ENGINEER SOLVES PROBLEM PARIS, Sept. 15, 5:25 a. m.-An Italian engineer. Louts Rota, has solved the problem of holding an object motionless in space, according to the Marseilles correspondent cor-respondent of the Petit Parisien. Rota is credited with having constructed an apparatus which, by the action of electric elec-tric currents, can be elevated to a height of from 2000 to 3000 feet and kept motionless, or propelled In any direction at a speed of more than 100' miles an hour. Rota's apparatus is spindle-shaped, twelve feet long and two feet In diameter, diame-ter, and can carry a weight of ninety pounds. It is said to remain motionless in a wind of considerable velocity, but if the wind becomes very strong it rises automatically until it reaches a calmer region of the air. The invention is based upon reactions obtained from the electro-magnetic forces of the atmosphere. |