| Show THOMAS A Ae EDISON ED ISON VISITING HERE DRAWS ASIDE VEIL OF FUTURE MODE OF TRAVEL AIRSHIPS kr t y r rt Will ILL SKIRT ij CLOUDS AND CROSS 1 OCEAN IN 18 HOURS Worlds World's Wizard Says Wright Broth Brothers Brothers' rs' rs Great That A al Cars Will II Machine Machin Bird ird S Sets ts k Go Co Around Aronn Globe I a New cv R cord in Ill in a I Air in Ill France 1 WHAT THOMAS A. A EDISON SAYS r II Within fi five years rears aerial flight will be commercialized j The aeroplane will vill be the means Two hundred miles an hour will be practical in traversing in-traversing the air With a horsepower 1 motor miles an hour will be attain attain- I r able The dirigible balloon and the fhe present st style yle of aeroplane will never succeed The crossing of the Atlantic will be bo to eighteen hours with the aeroplane The north pole can and will be reached in forty-eight forty hours by aerial flight perfected I IThe The circumference of the earth will willbe be a a. a matter of matter of a weeks week's I travel By Bythe B y t the he z n o aerial I flight I r mean n that hr for r f fast f mail traffic it t will be the prevailing method hod The dream of leaving this earth and sailing to other planets C CI c will never come true Ct I t BY GORDON SNOW i AV Avaunt 1 snail paced auto and crawling crawling crawl crawl- 7 ing express train The scrap heap for yours Civilization will soon have bave no not t further use for you Thomas A. A Edison Edison Edi Edi- r son himself says so 50 Yes sir Thomas A. A Edison wizard of the century con- con Qu of space and of the elements clements the greatest maker of things the world has produced Thomas ThomasA 1 A A. A Edison whoso whose immeasurable brain has made commonplace so 50 many of the tho heretofore ethereal and sible Bible forces of the universe And further further further fur fur- ther says tho the great master man within these five years cars wo we will bo be flying Hying Not with ith tho the dirigible balloon not with with the aeroplane but on a new principle principle one one born of his own creative brain Thomas A. A Edison tho the Knutsford hotel All unheralded and traveling as secretly as one so 80 great reat can possibly go 0 among his fellow men he be with wife and daughter quietly walked into the lobby of tho hotel this morning mornin carrying hIS hie own hand ba bag and registered for rooms for himself and family No sooner had he retired to hi his room than tho the ne' ne news spread like wild fire Thomas A. A Edison was in the house Well fame has its decided disadvantages disadvantages Tanta vantages said Mr Edison when the inevitable newspaper men had had invaded his bis sanctum for tho news of his arrival bad had spread rapidly in Salt Lake City where great reat men and great reat things thins are arc appreciated Talks of or tho the Air A few minutes later lost in the In in- Intense tense pleasure of talking of the wonderful wonder wonder- ful things s he be is ever working to attain ho he expressed his biB opinion of tho he solution of aerial navigation Tho dirigible ible balloon is a farco face and the aeroplane impracticable Ho lie wei weighed hed the he words as one naturally would in in casting casting- aside the only two pres pres- present present ent eat theories of If aerial navigation at on With the circular application of the principle of the tho aeroplane making what I havo bave styled tho the aeroplane the Commercializing of aerial flight is is a 3 amere amere m mere re matter of perfecting the idea With Within n five years this will be bo done doo A machine machIno will be constructed on this tIllS plan 1 which Which will be automatic in its operation IT- IT With ith a one horsepower motor a speed of miles an hour would bo ho attainable t The weak point of the present aero aero- aeroplane s plane around which the Wright ht invents invent- invent s ors org wi will trill never be able to get ot is that tho the JF operation of ot the tho machine lies wholly boBy in int r t tho o wonderful brain of its operator Ey- Ey I ct cry movement made by tho the Wrights in r maneuvering their machine must be he bet t Ilona none one in perfect harmony with tho trio working work work- r In ng ing of tho the planes Ono One fractional miss c movement mho would mean destruction to tok k t the machine and operator The Tho successful machine machino must be bo automatic automatic au au- in operation The Tho human part art artof 01 of it must bo be reduced to mere mero mcc an- an I Urn ism as in the case cage of the tho auto and steam engine Otherwise the tho dream of of skim skim- J Hung ng the clouds must ever remain a dream eam For twenty years off and and on I have havo tu turned my attention all absorbing Pro problem em of the twentieth century Lon Longs Long i ago Xo I saw tho the impracticability of the 1 lighter t r than air machine e such uch i as the l lo balloon is Too much depends an climatological ical conditions in ill e ri ctt I with the gas as ba bag theory The Tho Thop Ther p r aeroplane a appealed peals to mo strongest st but butI it IS P Plain lun to o me now no that a successful I Continued on page 9 9 D. t Ih LE MANS rANS France Sept l lOn On On tho the field flold of this morning Wilbur Wright ht tho of Dayton 0 O. eclipsed all European records for sustained sus aus- aeroplane nights flights lIe He remained in tho the air for 39 minutes and 18 6 3 sec sec- This gives ves the tho Wright brothers tho the record for both hemispheres Mr Wright circled the tho field at an average average av av- average height ht of forty fec feet IIo Ho turned an and twisted in every overy direction and his complete mastery of tho aeroplane nero aero plane aroused great enthusiasm amon among the spectators It is estimated ho covered cov cov- ered covered twenty six n miles leM N. N Bolle BoUe dent of the Aero of the was the official timer Mr Wright used his bis old motor which has been causin causing him so 60 much trouble but which had bad been dismounted and completely over over- hauled Upon alighting Mr rr Wright ht said ho be could have bare remained d in the air nIr longer long long- er bad had not the gasoline become exhausted ex ex- hausted Minister of Marino Marine Thomson is expected ex ex- expected hero here shortly to witness fitness Mr Jr Wrights Wright ht's s 's flights nights i h. h t Y h t s J. J J f r W If I- I v y 0 itI f pf I Ji r h P II I I M 4 J J. J 1 t. i-t. 7 Jj f t- t t i t 1 41 rt L i y 1 l b W t h J I f 2 i. i J I r. r r fY 1 l l f 1 I y t r l t i ik 1 Ir IrL r J j 4 loll t. t kif 10 W 70 7 J. J r t 5 1 4 q l f L J 0 f ft w vf R f oZ H 0 r r. r jI i. i P t f. f iJo o 1 11 T s 1 t I e. e v t I I I V t 1 I t 1 J. J r I C t P l W f f t elf M. M i ot- ot t. t y j i J O f. f 11 f 1 k ij I t f a bi 1 I I h I I. I 1 v t. 0 J 1 p C 1 r A f 9 1 f I i I f lot N. N A AI I Il 1 7 oI 1 J. J tS' tS 11 1 1 I f i. i o f c J h f n 11 y Jo 1 ti rf I 1 I p. p y 4 a r 1 0 N V u It t s t t. t t M I A J. J oJ t 1 X t T oo 1 1 r s. s t. t J J. 1 v tW f t y y-i- y i vY a yh vt 4 il f It L 1 r rf 4 III j. j WEIGHT BROTHERS' BROTHERS GREAT AIRSHIP IN m AC ACTION ION THOMAS A. A EDISON Continued d from page pae 1 airship will never be e cO constructed on that theory Do Not Follow Nature The aeroplane is a 8 primitive adoption tion hon of the bird wings theory and as ns we wedo wedo do cIo not possess tho divinity dl to secure the tho automatic action of the tho bird pird it is im un- possible In commercializing any new invention we ire must not not- follow nature For instance in tho the effort to discover some moans of propelling physical bodies without employing elemental force loree as muscle we did not turn to the human legs theory Far from it We invented invent d first the tho bicycle and then the auto both great reat improvements over oer natures natures nature's natures nature's na na- na tures ture's methods The Tho same lame idea must be followed in solving the present problem With a series of aeroplanes forming formin a R. circular machine with t each plane running off oft ona on ona a tangent from rom the central contral motor and two small very very small prop propelling planes tho the smaller the tho greater velocity and the gyroscope principle introduced as a a. 1 steadying yin factor tho the problem is solved Twenty years a ago o I conceived the idea but the lack of or light Ii ht motor facilities facilities ties such as ns arc now to be bo found in in the tho gasoline motor J made madr adr it impossible for lor mo to curry carry out ont the tho theory theor At present several I obscure obscuro inventors inventors are beginning to experiment along alon these th o lines I HI may enter tho the field myself w Within With With Within ith- ith in several months all great inventors will turn in ill d despair to this idea And presto tho the problem will bo ho solved solved- Actually solved d in an entirely practical practical practical the way Then will como come tors men bra men who will do the commercializing commercial commercializing izing of tho the invention by adding addin de do- details tails to a assure asuro uro safety and other such necessities to hi high h speed I This Wonderful Man ManThe The great inventor stopped talking His listeners closed close their wide open mouths und mind sou sought ht to grasp the immensity im immensity im- im of tho the things suggested 8 in his statements The wonderful enthusiasm of ol the man had entered them and anil not nota a skeptic was to be found in the crowd of hotel guests and employees employee's who at attracted attracted at- at b by the tho conservation of Edison and his hii interviewers inter had gathered in a small knot about him him So this is tho the man whose inventions have hae harnessed this little old world orld to tp all its parts with tho the perfected ap- ap of electricity who whose e brain has bas reduced effort muscular mu effort on the time part of man to the tho mere pushing of buttons and releasing of levers Jo whose inventions in the tho commercial world of man a more mere puppet and havo have installed tho the elemental forces in his place With ith ith massive forehead covered with witha a a. of iron gray rnY hair projecting project project- in mug ing out ov over r two steel blue eyes strong chin ohm and tho dreamers dreamer's mouth Thomas A. A Edison looks tho the part of the tho worlds world's greatest in inventor en tor I I I I I Sixty-five Sixty Years Young IA A somewhat nose adds to the Heavy sot and calm extremely ex ex- cx- cx calm for one whose whoso life lifo has boon been spent grasping and figuring figuring fig fig- tiring out fleeting ideas solid Jacc face smoothly shaven shann and with the tho ot of health still in his bis checks for Thomas Edison has had no timo time for dissipation he creates an aim impre impression sion difficult of ex ex- But that atmosphere which instinctively follows in tho the wako wake of a areat great reat and massive brain brain is is to be he found in Mr r Edison's presence Tho The personality per per- of the man is all pervading Tho glance of his eye accompanied with the persuasive tones of his convincing conversation holds hoMs an interest that is unaa unflagging in Sixty five years youn youn is the tho phrase r Mr Ir Edison employs in in speaking of oC his years rears One Ono laughs with him as ashe ashe he hc speaKs tho tha words so characteristic of tho the man aro are th they J Recognizing no impossible im im- mm- mm possible achievement in the thc physical world and over ocr employing his mind in inthe tho the creative way Edison refuses or perhaps perhaps per per- haps Imps forgets to grow row old And yet tho years of unceasing application ap application of intense effort on tho the part of his mental faculties have havo not left him hint entirely free frea from tho the marks of ofa a age c. c One Ono can see sec in the slightly drooping droop droop- dropping in ing mouth lines of weariness s which surely must have been lines of snap and vim twenty years a ago o. o Sixty five years of active lifo lito have necessarily ly Is- placed Mr 1 Edison beyond his bis prime There is much yet of good to all humanity humanity humanity human human- ity to come from this man but bis his bisI I golden a age e is past I I Great Imagination Mr Edison is necessarily a dreamer dream or orto to a i marked degree His ima imagination stops at nothing and his headed hard practical side Ride has never failed to lo back backall all alj its fights Without the thc combination comb nation perhaps be he would newer never have havo accomplished accomplished tho the things that now stand to his credit in the worM worlds s 's r record cord of timings things done And Mr r. r Edison's person carries carric tho the double impression of worker and dreamer An Au example of the tho balancing power of the two characteristics is to tobe tobo bo he found in any part of his conversa conversa- tion Asked as to his opinion of tho the possibilities of tra traversing space to such sucha a distance as to leave this sphere Mr Edison's Edison practical side prompted him no uno to sa say That will always be bo impo impossible owin owing owing ow ow- in ing to tho the vacuum and de degree reo of cold to be found upon rising any height eight i ht from the earth And yet et yet he lie contin Nothing can be said to bo be im im- irn- irn possible Wo know knon absolutely nothing of anything in this universe universo speaking in tho the metaphysical sense I modify my last assertion I J will morel merd merely eay say saydo I Ido 1 do not think wo we will over ever learn leav this earth iu in aerial flight ht And Ami even in inv my last assertion I evince m my narrowness The dreamer in him was active This ThiR is Thomas A. A Edison's first visit to Salt Lake Lako City Thirty years ago aJo he passed through O Ogden don when that town At present ho is touring the time country with ith Mrs ors and Miss Edison Ho has just arrived from the time northwest where ho be hns has been resting for several weeks The did Yellowstone park three days after tho the hol holdup up and andin in speaking of tho affair Mr fr Edison was Jou loud in in his praise of tho daring man who lone handed executed the deed That fellow he lie declared would be lie worth a year ear to mo nie merely to toc c exorcise his ner e in my laboratory Tho The leave tonight for tho the ea east t. t |
