Show EXPERTS BELIEVE IN AIRSHIP Invention of New Yorker May Solve Old Problem The patent olllco In Washington has been overrun with applications for patents applying to aerial navigation Few if any of them are admissible Hero Is the latest effort of tho kind Invented by John Mason Jones a New Yorker The fact that Col C E Crccy tho attorney who secured funds from the government to build the Holland submarine boats has taken an Interest In this Invention and that practical engineers have Indorsed its probabilities probabili-ties entitles It to attention It consists of Improvements in the plan of propellers now In use moro especially adapted for aerial naviga w 4 tion designed to be used In connection with an airship Such Is the basis of tho Idea as tho Inventor describes It It claims the advantage of being an air vehicle which does not depend on a gas bag or balloon aeroplanes or kites to raise it from tho ground According to tho Inventors drawing it consists for experimental purposes of a whirling propeller or sail made preferably of aluminum attached to a steel mast set In a light car about nine feet long A gasoline engine or motor In the center of this car propels this said comprising semitubular chambers which curve from end to end the under un-der portions of which are open from end to end Tho whirling of this metal sail fills It with air tho motion accomplishing accom-plishing with air what the propeller does for a ship In water Smaller semi tubular chambers attached at each end of tho car serve to push or pull being whirled by the same motor as the big one and serving dirigible purposes Mr Jones claims that the speed of this propeller In the air will regulate the speed of tho car and control Its distance from the earth |