Show across the atlantic in sixty hours I 1 I 1 rv j 7 I 1 r fj p f prof S Stein einer elner erth t e young american aeronaut that made an serial flight from cincinnati jonew 0 o new fall alighting in a neighboring ng corn field fild has nas been bean engaged for some lime jime in attempts I 1 to 0 solve the problem grobi am of oras ofas cerial rial navi nevi navigation atlon aaion and it is thought 11 basteen has bas been successful the xenia news announces that he is about to make a practical application of the result of his bis experiment exper experimenting imen ting the editor of that paper has been shown the plans and specifications of a monster airs airship hip bip designed to cross lle ile fhe the lie atlantic in sixty hours for the construction of which professor steiner desires to secure the aid of congress trie the general idea of the plan for its ita construction is thus given the bottom is to be of thin thia sheet copper weighing not more than haifa half a pound to the square foot it is to be cigar shaped very much like the winans steamer steamy r feet long and 80 feet in in diameter it dt tile the centre tapering towards each extremity estr mity beneath this balloon is to be suspended by wire wira cables a platform of the same fame conical shape with the he balloon itself oa a the central part parl of this platform is 13 to be placed the tha machinery of the air air ship and the cabin for passenger tile the surface measure of the ballion will be square feet and its total weight wll willbe wil be 37 toris torts it will contain cubit feet of gas which will support in the air a w weight eig elg lit of 86 tons toas the platform cabin machinery etc are eftim estimated a ted at IS 18 tons I 1 leaving still power enough to elevate 21 tons passengers of freight and ballast it is proposed to propel this vessel by meris merls means c olt ir large paddles or fans to work in the a arn ii as the p paddles addles of a steamboat work on the tile water there 13 to be one wheel on each side of the vessel and at the stern is to be a screw propeller all of these to be worked by steam engines place placed d at thes thos entre of the platform the side wheels have the paddles so arranged as to fold up like a ladys fan as they enter the tha wheelhouse wheel house above and to unfold again as they strike the air in the desired direction anere are to be three small oscillating engines of five horse power one for each wheel to confine the balloon to a given height above the water it must be evenly ballasted ballested bal lasted attached to a copper float in the tile water connected to the platform underneath the air ship by a coil of wire rope an ingenious which cannot be satisfactorily explained on paper is attached to the he platform whereby timo tiro balloon is as certainly steered sheered as a vessel in the water prof S thinks he has effectually overcome the two great difficulties ei encountered countered by all experimenters in arial navigation viz the expansion and contraction of gas and the difficulty in exhausting haustin hau sting the common air from the balloon with rigid nid sides without haing having it crushed the themyana means meana used to obviate these difficulties difficult les ies we have not the tha space to explain but suffice it to say the he process seems wholly practicable and effective it is calculated that with head winds a speed of 40 miles nn oil hour can be obtained with this fails air and with favorable gales the speed would be increased to prof S estimates the cost of building such auch a balloon at |