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Show OUR GREATEST ASTRONOMER. A CJift'. With Sooretry l.iu.loy About Hi Won-ilerl Won-ilerl ul Dii'oovoi y in lo llio Mini nnl n to Aori.-il Naviffiitioii- TU Sum; Fturmm, Heat Form ,ni ill toitible itkl VtiKtiti,-H VtiKtiti,-H th, World; Overt, May be WulaLd-A l.o k at .Sun -V" "" a M at th, iun-Mr. UneW J,,veut,o,-How lit Orr.ed IJ'C' ; ' w rh.i.w,- ?-' 'w," ,74 Mr. laugley t Flymx HaMnes-He De.erihn Jernnent, tnd Tem lh:v lie He, Made Brail I'latei tly Through th, Air-Lteam limine, Uc CoulJ Fir and the Future of Rapid Tr.mul Though the CUb-A Authorize Men-leu. Hit Our Crealal Seuntut. Ssarltl CorrstpeedtDes ol News, (L'oprrif l'l M" t frssli U. I rt.enter.i Waihikuton. December n, ityS- A7C0K VEAKS Hie Invesliita-vfffjplioiii Invesliita-vfffjplioiii ol Mr. S. P. I.sri!iey. ivlr,ne Kc"'"y ol ,,,e i,m"h' 'I (f"3'-in'!in Institution, have bieii ' ; sLii' alchcd wilh absorbing Inter- i eil ly lh k iemisU ol Ihe world. Whit Edison, Tesla and Bell are to general invention he is to sctenli-fie sctenli-fie Itvenliim. He has created new method me-thod in the study of the heavenly bodies. He ha. lo the largest entent meuuied the heat ol Ihe inn, mvf nlmg lor the purpose liic lioluincler, by means of whlcli Ihe Irmperiiure of sunbeam cm be lesicd to the millionth ol de gree, lie nn given uif" ""- . , , Ihe wonderful spots 'u the iin' sur- ' lace, end h heft hown how thu great body may practically ellecl H "" , i j md eveiituilly used to lit advantage. j ' It was Mr. Ungley who originated the i symtemaiic time lervice by which Hie clivcks ol our cities ire now regulated ' irons the observatories' of the country and by which Ihe railroads itill run their Iriint without danger ol accidents through varying time. It ii he who haj nude iome of the greatest advances in ! the study of the problems ot the air, ' end of 1MB physical principle! upon ! wiiice aerial navigation il it ii ever real- . I ired must rest. Tin most of these experiinciiti and ohieivatiorui were made hy Mr. Latis-i' Latis-i' lev while he was at the head el Ihe ob- , , servalury it Pittsburg, Uieugh be was I j then amilantly supplementing them by ' olheri which he carried on it high alt'- I '( tudes ill over i io world. In the pl iius ! of Spain, on the ede.e ol Ihe crater of t iVount Aetna, in Sicily, upon pike's ! Peak, In Colorado, and ou the snowy ,! loima, he has been, not as l loutist lor 1 an hour, but spending long dais and ? , night! studying Ihe heavens, catching j ! the chingei on the mun'i surface, and j , trying lo learn their practical applica- 11 tiona lor the uses of mankind, lie la in j j minor degree carrying on observation J J and experiment today, though his time ami energiee are uccraaattly almost t: wiiollv devoted lo the iidininn.lraliun ot t 1 the great institution ol winch he is the j ' head. j j A CHAT WITH blilMlTAKV I.ANlil.tY. i ; Thi man is now slaty-one yrars old. His life has hcen packed with ' I the hardiest ol orl;, but Ins evu is , , bright, his u p hn linn, ami he lus to- i flay is nuirll vitality m anv til the -j vounger olhcerl nl llie institution. He l is, 1 tH-heve, the lMi.li-ft man l.i WiinIi- ' ! Ingtou, lor ho came on Ins s.ieulilic i - j expetiments only in the iiiteivnlsol his j ailitilnislralive w nrK, aiui ic pnuw u j. special appointment m.ide soinelmn- ill I udvauce lor mo Hi secure a chat vtuh I hnn. 1 louud him a chaiimug talkn, ; 1 lull ot cood nature anil overllowinj; itn : t apt quotations and luo. lnere u- '. thiuu peilanuc alioul h ni. Iledinpprd lor me tunc all tec unu.al lnnkn..e, inn ' 1 in every day word., at my reuuem, tned ; ! lo convey lo ni -some idei ol Ins ou- I 1 uerlul work. 1 asked hlnl u number ot i J , nuestlulis about Iiiuim II. I la did not I like l answer these. I in wauled to pal hunsell on Ihe bat kgruund, and I led ; that the people will bo mlere.te I in Ins i personality, ulid in Ihe sloiy ol llow an , : ainb.tlous boy "hitched I. is wa,:otl to ! i Lie slats" aud gol lliere. tpoii my tirst ankiug him until Iw w br:'t al- j v Ira. ted lo Ihe study of lbs heavens, lis I " lephed; t ; "I lannot reiner.DM ulli'll I WAS not . . '. intcieslcd in uslruuomv. I r in.-iuti.r i J reading boons upon the subjucl ail car.)- i u as at nine, aud when I was quite a '.)oy ; i 1 learned how lo nuke hide .ciescop , i I anJ I studied thu mars ttiiouli ihrin. ) ! Jjitir 1 made sonic lariter ones, ami th.iu h thev wi-re, of c inrse, nothin- like ili'isi-we " -e liere, I I k niysrlt iheVwrr. K.... I ..ra bov. On. ot He m..l wondeitul llnngs to mu was the s in, ami how It heated the eaith. I used lo h-!d my hands up to it and won-il-r how lie rays made tnein "I'm, and a lure and how 'the heal came Irom. 1 aked miinv ipiesilons. bill I could sret no sahsl ii lory replies, and some ol these rluluish iuesiions have occupied many ycais of my later hie in the answering. 1 r. m.mber, for instance, one ol the won-tiers won-tiers to me was a common hotbed. I could not see ho the glass kept it warm while all around was colt), ami when I asked, I was t il I that of course the kIjss kept in the heal; but thorn;,; my -Ibis saw no dillicjlly aliout it. I coul.l not see why, ll the heal went in through the glass, ll could not come oi'l sjiii. I u iw know nut the sue ot the rays changed alter entering Ihe guss, an I that lhy could not come out I !"... ...... ih.v r,.w lamer, belinc III mui:ll the same cornhlion as that ol trie lean I mouse who crept through l boh in a barrel ol tram, anJ tilled himself so lull that on could not get out again. Since then I have spent many years in undying Ihe way lh-t thai grcal hot-lied. hot-lied. Ihe earth itself ou which we live, is, by a like principle, made warmer by ihe atmosphere mat coven it is t.ie glass did the hotbed." "Was your lather in istronotaer, Mi. Lingley?" I asked. No." was the reply, "My lather was a merchant, and I have no recur Is of islroiomers in my family. M lather a as not rich enuugh to give mo an income ulhci-nt lo support mysell aud my hobby. A-lronomy, you know is net a very p:olu-ble science, aud at I had to make a living lor myself, I cho e the proh-ssion ol uidnl-ctiire and civi engineering, but 1 never hearlily liked it Alter l,ii years I went lo llnrope. aiid on my return trom lhat lllp, having a little money, 1 decided that 1 would lake up astronomy aud devote my l ie loll 1 went lo Ihe llaivard University Univer-sity at Laiiinri.lge ami loun.l a position lor work and study there, lu.it I had been occilpliig mysell with astronomy nrcity assiduously already was, I think, shown by the lads lh.it although I lacked the experience U'l only obser-. obser-. I. . ...,1,1 ai'inlv. I still knew eaioufh to command a salaried position Irom the outs -l. 1 remained at Harvard Har-vard lor some nine, and melt was called to Ihe Naval Academy at Annapolis lo take cbatgu ol the observatory there. My ne.xl position was as the dliector ol the Allegheny Oiiervatory m ar 1 itls-l.urg, itls-l.urg, where I spent a great part (it my piolessional hie belore I came to Wash- '""'it'was at Pittshuig, then, that most of your espcrinients were earned ou, U''-i"" replied Mr. Ungley. 'There was ii nte a largo telescope lor those llays at Pittshuig. Ilhad been bought by a club ol au.aieur astronomers, part-lolly part-lolly lor cxsli, but l.io.tli on cre.ht. Alter the lust enthusiasm pas icd away Ihe Hi bt remained and Ihe club became disorgani.-.ed. )J lhal the telc.cope was about to be sohl at aucti when ihc We-.r in I'nnvisilv accuien il. I ney invited me to take cll.ng,- ol llieob.tr-v..roiy. llieob.tr-v..roiy. and 1 came to Pmshuig and began my work. Ihe hrst ssork, no-I ever, was to provide the indispensable I apparatus tor the observatory, which, ' except lor the buttle tclescopo, was oi.e only in n.,un'. I I nnid, l.'.a'cei, a lol.d lack ol money. ' III UKrlANI.ra i iik ii si k at:VICK 'I he seireiary contieiieil: "My pr"-pos-d ii.vesugations con i' not be made uithoiit books and instalments, arid thcNU miiU hot bo got without hinds. 1 then began lo look around loi soinethin, winch I could do winch would bo commercially pioiuan.c lo me obstt.aioiy, and the result was lint in-iiU..ualion in-iiU..ualion ol the linie serv.ce, whi't. has since spread all over the count-, and hy wlm-u the clotl.l ol our railroads and oar cities lire now legulalcd Horn an observatorv at some niui.il pjuii. ll ii laminar enough now. but I had the hai.l or.. of IU..I introducing Hand pel-Luaduig pel-Luaduig peop.o ol il i utility. I had to uilert si l ie eil' c iviiicilb and Ihu ran-r ran-r ml. in Ii nut I Ii . aliy got an electric clo.k cslalill i.ied at the cbsrrvaloi y and soon had Hie time ol Ihecily icgula- ted hy it. Mr-Mr thif each ieael-r hail his own lime, liar h ol the railroad I ran by riuVeienl times, and there aa.no certainly cer-tainly at to Ihe annals or departures ol I, aim. loon liter I started ll, itwases-tended itwases-tended along the hues ol Hie lailways lint I wc were rei'lllsliniT clr-rhs as lar as I'lu'ra,.! and Philadelphia horn Puts, burr. To do this we had lo Imvo the u'ri iric wires lo ollr-elvei, and It was so nrra iged that we were allowed to use them lar hve minutes at ll o'clock In Ihe morning mid at 4 o'clock In the allernoon ol every day. The system soon spread to otuer cities, and it is no v in uto all over Ihe world. I did all thu lo me tin-gratciul tin-gratciul work in older to get means lor my experiments; and as I look hack on ll I think I may claim that I did tolerably well in a busine.s wav. I r a mm cruelly versed in srienlilie allnrs, for lirst and last I thus gol l-r my little observatory overf'iooj. Th s I ntsde out ot notli-lie notli-lie us it' were, and this all went into books and into Ihe means lor scientific, research " Tim hum o; tcst ikiiind timk. " I he observatory clock was regulated by the sun. was It no f" "Yes," repherl Mr. I.angh-y. "'Hy the sun and the lixed stars. You cannot work by the sun alone. It is by no means a regular body, ai many people siipiiose. You would not give anything lur a watch wnicli should be us trregtil ir as the sun. Toe sun is sometimes hl-teen hl-teen nnnulcf oul ol Ihe way al noon, sometim s ahea I and so 'ielimes behind time, and it is only by averaging its ir-regularities ir-regularities that wo know where to find "Your studies hise been largely devoted de-voted to the sun, Mr. Lai-g'ey. VYn.it is the sun, anyho . ' "That epic hum is a K'Hid deal easier to ask than to answer," was the reply. "I have spent years in w.nching it and trying to learn something alniut it. I have discovered some tilings, but 1 .-v.uld have to know a great deal more blore I could a leipiately answer lhal sucstion. I spent three ye irs in the s'tmly ol the spots on the sun belore I was ready to make any auiiounienienis conceinmg Hum, and during the waking hours ol Ihoie Inrco years ihe sun's lace was a m isl constantly belore me. Have you ev r l,m- ed at it ill a leiescoper' Da you apprecat oat wan ning In sun isf In tnc hrsl place, me tace ol the sun in telescope is almost always quivering, uur aim pnere makes it seem lo move to and iro in waves, and looking at ll Is like looking al a llickeniig caudle, so lhat il its surface were ever so near il would be hard lo make out the derails. Hut then, it is. ol course, ically an enormous enor-mous way oil, sj tn it lh-se details are a, so lost from its ram vtmess. Ca i you give me an idei how tar oil it iff" ' I have tried in oi.e of my popular writings to do that by a borrowed lllus-lia'.ioa," lllus-lia'.ioa," replied Mr. l.anvb .. "l or In .1 nice, you touch your linger lo a candle, can-dle, am! in a n c e.u ol a cond your brain .uiaou ,c : . lha pain I'm- se .Ballon .Ba-llon h n traveled along tli.r nerve to the brain almost si imlianeoudy, but the Sliced has been me isured. rtupp-ise you had all arm winc.i Would reach Irani the earth to the sun, and you could put the lips of your tinkers un that glowing mass ot tire, ll would br a linle mor. than uae hundred years (il you couiu nve so Iongl bwl ire y in could kn iw tut your tuners were being burned. Well, the rays ol tue sun have to come all th tt distance belore tlu-y reach you, and toe last miles ol uie r journey are through wavis ol healed air, which maaes lb-suuseemlo lb-suuseemlo ti cker so, while bevond and henmd a',lthiialino .t all its bngh e l surlacn I. in leal aciual 111 illoil. sh llmg here and there win a velocity m my hundred li nes that ol a canno l ball. These ledcnangoi may last lor a sec oud or a minute, and special phenomena may occur in the twinkli ;; ol an eye. In my stu.h-i ot the sun sp its I had to have a paper anil pencil belore me as I looked tliruugh Ihe telescope lo record luese change, as they went on, in order lo catch their varying expressions o a the '"I cannot describe to you t ie w mdcra will h me gol.lg oh Ihere. I l.iund, however, that m older lo du my work well. I mil. I l-'.irn soinetlnih: more than the mechanic il drawing wmc.i was ail knew, and as the.e studies went on. 1 Lamed lo craw .ill' l paun sum ,-. o..i w.dl to make mi . ords. Si . Men 1 I have (lr..n Imndnd- ol su i spo' s. and 1 the works uh. -n I have puolch, d h isn I been il'uslraico Willi Illy own drawings ol them." A 111.13 AT A SI S rd'OT. I.M this point in the conversation Secretary Sec-retary I. dig. cy had on-ol tl.e-o lormcr .IraauiRso, a sun spot laid u . ui the ta-I ta-I ble. ll was, ill Ian, a l e.nitrul painting about isxi. llicl.es in sue, ol what seem, d lo Iw a snow y suilace, with a I large- hla k area ill me middle, cros.se I nlAstlc outlines liae the lio.t figures on " l''l"h'.."' s'.ni lie, "is a -p it which 1 iw in lri. ll remained annul twenty iiunu"-i in the lie IJ ol tne leles.-o.ie. and It looks nisi as 1 saw It. You notice ah iooa'hl.e a ball of tire when you see ll in a 'slcscope. ll appears ni ne lioacn than lioi. It I'SlkS tiiiicn like ill: ino. ten v.lh'e ilon in a great pudd le; l.u-II.U-.S You cannol see l.i .i Uiy II ill-dl.ii!ig ill-dl.ii!ig can ou appn ti.ile i.ssi.r. That spot w,i,h I hue Ihcie iliawn was sn big that the earth roulrl have liccn dropped ino it without touehing the sides. 1-ach ul those bright gosia-mer-hke threads ii about '. miles long, and that spot covered more than thousand million (uuaro miles ol the sun's lice. It had an area live timrl that of the Whole Mirlaie ol Ihe earth. A little edere l it broke up and dissolved while I looked at it. which was bigger than the whole l u.ted .Slates. It was all in m-tion, nnd us seething panicles were Hying about at the rate of fifty miles a second sloni: the nurfaco under which I could see probably some thousands thou-sands of miles into the daikneis below, up Irom which came volumes of intcnf u-ly u-ly heated whirling vapor." "How could you look at the sun o long, Mr. Langley, without hurting your cyci?" "I could not have done it," was the reply, "had 1 used nothing; but my eyes. I had first to 1 1 v 1 1 1 an Instiument to take the place ol the incompleto means ..,! l,v ci, vv.n; .... 11,'isi hel In order to see the sun ny ri ll cti in. The rays mine to Ihe locus ol the telescope 111 blinding bri;htnes, producing a heat Sullicn 111 lo m ll iron, but these rays have sulei to llieni, and I y lira. r placed at dill, rent an.:h niey can be so r.tleclcd that there is no llloie heal and hghl than I Choose to lave. 1 hive gazed at the sun tor live hours at a stletclt Willi this imtruineill, anil luv-i II I iu .11 ore laligue thm I would have tell Irom reading a bo..K." Tint aunt's nsniiiMot a iikat I'oaeu. "ilow abr.ul the heal of the sun, Mr. Langleyf Can you give me iome idea ol ii? ' "Pint ng It brtellv. It is enormous beyond be-yond conception, lor there is enoiili to warm iwo thousa'i I million Worlds Itae ours, and every uiimiie there is enough ol the sun's heal I... hug on Ine eallll to rai e to bnili..,r I'liity-scve.i th iusiild million tons of water. Ilnl bus heat which Inlls on the t inn is not a thou-sand. thou-sand. ll part ol one per cent of what me sun sends elsew.iere, and ad t ie coal beds ol I'cn'lsvUaita, for inU-ic--, though Ihey c ill su piy the couu'.ry lor hunoled. ol vears. world not keep u,i tin, ncal during the one thousand. h p ut ul a second. No v, when you think mat these enormous figures aie not exag-gcra exag-gcra ,o.;s, l.ul w ilhui the truth, you ll ive logivc up tue idea of graspug llie mouiil ol tho sun's heat as mco.iceiv-ab.e." mco.iceiv-ab.e." . . , v ill we ever be able lo use this heat mcehanicalM" , " I hat leiinms to be seen. The force is there. The method ol preserving and pp ymg il ecoiiom ra.ly has el lo l c invented. Sly experiments on .in. VVniincy. In tne Sierra Nevad.ii, showed thai il we could save it all and u.u ll lor our kteain engines it would give about a horse power lor every square yard ol mound. We hear a greal deal about t ae immense potver from lite recent till I an u ol Nug ira, bill the sun power wlui n is, s i to speak, wasted dad) on II is lull I) sin. I ol Culumlna is hundreds hun-dreds and hundicds ol tunes as greal. Tne heal on Ihe service ol lite I .laud ol Manhattan or lhal oc upie I by London could al nounlide i. live all the slca.il engines ol the world, rso let there have been no piai tunl inventions lor utilization utiliza-tion 1 1 this enormous power. At ine Pans exposition ol .1;S there was i relic, re-lic, tor which drove a steam engine wiiica milked a priming piess. l.riLjMiu nude a suiar engine wlucli it was llmu ht might be us--d ill the pumping up ol the waters on desert lands. Ine probability ii lhat the day will coma when we will u.e ail this lorce. W hen it docs the deserts ol the world, with , their cnoimoiis sun power, may become the gieai ci ulers of matluiacluro and ol ctvlluitiun." AhKlAb NAV1CIATION. 1 next asked Mr. l.angley somo quel-lions quel-lions as aerial navigation, lie was disinclined dis-inclined lo la.k about the suliject, nnd he gave me lo understand that the slate meiils made by Ihe piess concerning i,..,i in tins conneciion had been made without his authority, ll is wed known, however, mat in lu punlisV d scicntihc wiilm; on aerodynamics Mr. l.angley has descilbed his discovery ol lacts winch groally alter our lorui. r suppo.ed knoa ledge on tins subject, and that though he has not tiiere undeiiak-n to describe any Hying machine, is he is popularly supposed to have d..lle, he has mad - exoeiuucllts which sl.owlh.it mecli.iuic.it ll i t is lar Iroat impossib.e. 'I hue hy a ptopir appl. cation and dins di-ns ,. n . I ira i.'ice a. id the speed, he has u intd lolld luass plates Uion tile a., won an incredl dy small display ul cnerfy. Il did tins many years ago, and at I'llt-b i'g oe made thousands ot cxperiineii.s w inch snow lhat there arc cer'.am shape , in winch matter cm be di p .se I i t at tne more rapidly it moves throng'! the air III one sense, the le.s pow.-i i. Mkes lo move It, and lhal solid mod-Is can ne thin made to skim, us it were, a tie too viewh ss air. as a .ka'.er skiuii .n.aig me surl.ice oi thin j, ,; the l..-ici you go in e.llier case, tlir h-i il nuer meie being ol tailing dow n. As :.u as I could juoge from my l.i k with In n. bis experiments show tn n me -ei niii ; buds have an intuitive knowledge U certain pioprrtici ol the air, which hav heeii only recently fie veloped Iht ulsh these cxpciunenis, and llui l,v then- tn. y navigaie the ir id-most id-most wuhi.ut eilorl in a way winch Ihere is no reason to think that it is Impossible Impossi-ble we can do, if not by our iud'd strength, at any rale by means ot -u- i engines as ore rrcentlv being l.init With re:;.-.id in this he spoke o the l.n t that such birds even about U.lsliinelou may be seen rising and lallir.g, soaiing up and sailing down, and moving in circles cir-cles without any 11 ipp.ng ol then wings. Tin; mikaclis rir tiic biros. Said he: "Did yon ever think what a physical miracle ll is lor such a bird as one of our common turkey binrinls t' fly in the way it does.' You may them any day along the Potomac, Healing Heal-ing in the air with hardly the movement ol a leather. Thcss birds weigh from five to ten pounds; they are far heavier than the air which Ihey dbnl.ice; ihey are abs. lulciy heavier than so many fialirons. 1 suppose il men saw cannon balls Moating through the air ltkc soap bubbles they would look on it as snipping, sni-pping, II not as a miracle. The only reason that we are not surprised at the soarini- bud is that we have seen it from our cinid.iooil. Peilnp-. ll we had seen ca inon balls lloitini: in Ihe airtroiu o.:r ihildh-iod wo should not stop to iiui'iiro ho they did it any more than w.- in how the bu.-. n s do it. I am sp. ..k.ng now, ol eoui.se, not of birds whu h hy ny flapping their wings, but of those which II. ..un. ml Hipping their wings, or very r.ml", and with almost no venule ex-pit.'. ex-pit.'. nine of force. lilt 7.M.L1 OK HIS DIsCOVKKIIiH. "I'.i re is a i.JO.1 ileal ol mis it,ire-h.-li .,l about n.y own hive. In; l..ot in I ns lc. c.:l," cietary l.angley went on, " l.ul what 1 ha.e at l..sl dvinon tr .trd IS li..lt lc ivy lll..e..ihes, ni. 1,., loons, can he made whlell will I to-di.ieenou,;.! to-di.ieenou,;.! in. r i. I..C..I ow.;r lo su... port incni-elv. s r. !.. air, and to Hy, lni,uii this is not s i"g Lit we have yet go: Ihe ski. I to m...iage li.ls pjae' .so as to II.-.-, adv..rne and i! J. ei d l..lt.y. VYliatna.tuahyd.'iU'l ti.il d re. ,,.ii ftil ial exiieri rp ii '., Iil-.a:ed h.iu .ie.ls ol Hill's in Ine liooratolv. b it under coinir";ns not so easily rtptaud in tne "I1'"1 " ' ... " sua - vxpi-r.riie lis are in t'.e lalure of an en line, r' I i le , 'ti.i n i ". ., tiling tilings iu pounds, teel I Ii t-ej-ovet, anil ny I'li'in I nave sli r .i fid a.i ex-peiiililiue ex-peiiililiue ill tie hcrsu i ower 'il a ' in ohlv legulate it sj ss t i m he ll e I. it I, or, no ,lal w.il sup, un u u tit i pound., and al the miiii I cie cn.y il at the lale ol tilts llillci all hour llno.igh Ihe an. , , , , "Now, there have recently been buill steam engines which with luel and water wa-ter lor a .nor (light, will give a good deal moie th.ni a horse power and WClgll a goon oeai ic-n in.i.i .is. ,..y pounds, so that we have a very large maigiu. Tlia ClINrKDL A Nil DllllicTniNoyil.VIMl MAC 111 NI H "What I am trying I ) do Is to establish estab-lish by direei expel, ineiil tnc imdeiiying pull. Iples ol ibis lutuie ait ol sc.ei.ee, and, hav.iig louud die exact ainouill ol lorce re.p.ircd, tl po nole, to learn nex' how it is to be excited, directed and colilioiicd. T know it is danger us lor any one to make any statement escept in posi tive tin ts and figures about men mailers. mai-lers. Tue peopie have, ever suite me clays ol Dai t.s l.recn and Ills living machine, ma-chine, until ci , lately, put such a one down as i v.siotiaiy, without investigation investiga-tion ol what lie has to oiler. As lor me, I have never said Inat mail could lly by his own strength, nor havo I ever published pub-lished ihu details ol any Hying mi-machine, mi-machine, but what 1 have not omy discovered, dis-covered, but demonstrated by aclual experiment, is, that there u no doubt that machines can be made powcrlul enough lo support bodies in the air which aie thousands ol tunes heavier than the air itself People who ask, il this is so, why such mschines aru not made at once to actual.)' tly with the human hu-man Height, since we havo nuw got ...... i.i. ...I ,,iiw.r. mav be reminded that thougn nicy themselves have got plenty ol .trr ig.n lo ride a hicvclcor to skate, 1 1 " s . though essential, is not riiiio'll l. i l'i- have added tho special sk .l and xi T" nee to u.u il, just as every in oi'-i-J - arj strong enough lo ri.'e a bicycle, ...,iiu yei most of us can-.ol can-.ol do so wi:-...:l. inaeil pauitul experi-e experi-e C'i in far :.:,, bow lo Use antl mwinpu. lale " fur hbinglh, aa many lluw.id.ill find out Soili.all'i iiitirici.il lligln. We have g 1 1 1" inecianicai power uow, but j h ..e i ll. I gol to ae. U.ro the skill to use ll in mis new held.'' "llul w i'l thai day ever come, Mr. Laiigle)?" I asked. "As to that plied Secretary Lang-lev, Lang-lev, "1 have so lar spoken only ot what I have ascertained lo be li.tt, and 1 laei and what is only my opinion. I'.x-pressing I'.x-pressing only my personal opinion, then, I am willing to answer that I believe ll altogether probatle Inat 111 Ihe nol very distant luture, but how I n ni.taiit 1 do nol pretend lo sav, ll ng ni ichines, thai is, not balloons, bt.i heavy con-stiuctions con-stiuctions nctuaird by machinery, w'lll bo propelled very rapidly mrou..i the air, probably at first larely aim in ureal rbk in luilherance of me iu ot war: later in introdu- n g a great change in all human all ills ni the uus ol peace.' |