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Show Credit Goes to Maxim for Idea in Aviation Hiram S. Muzim is believed lo be t lie first to prove thut a body heavier tli::n air could be lifted by its own motive power. Uis crude and complicated compli-cated luacliiiie accomplished t lie feat in July. 1S!M. It was supplied with screw propellers weighing lXi pounds each und measuring 17 feet 10 iDclie9 over tlie tips of the blades. These were attached to a shaft that ran at an average speed of 3T." revolutions a minute, operated by a pair of compound com-pound engines, supplied with steam from a combined ntultilmlar boiler, feed water heater and gas-heating burner, weighing l.ituit pounds, provided pro-vided with 7.0."itl Jets, the boiler having hav-ing a healing surface of about Snfl feet. The entire machine, together with its full equipment of fuel, water nnd men. weighed less than R.(KV) pounds. A writer In ("assier's Mam-r.Ine. Mam-r.Ine. in lSftTi. observed: "As- a mechanical structure this machine is unquestionably a masterpiece master-piece of work and It has been appropriately ap-propriately described by an eminent engineer ns "not si Invention hut a museum of Inventions.'" Kansas City Star. |