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Show The First Aeroplane Built By a Woman. Typowritor, secrotary, lawyer, aeronaut Miss Lillian Todd has been all there, and sho tolls about it in tho Woman's Ilomo Companion for November. Sho is tho first woman who has built an aoroplanc and sho designed it herself. From early childhood sho has been interested in machines and patented a number of inventions. Liko tho Wrights, sho has worked work-ed very quitely and porfected her machine without fuss or feathers. Her description of tho machiiio has a feminine touch. "Tho outline of tho machine is original, though very recently approximated'abroad; it is based bas-ed on a minute study of tho wings of tho albatross in the Museum of Natural History. Tho full length of tho machine is forty feet, and' tho three planes aro parallod in tho curves. I have gone on tho principle that if two planes aro good, throe aro bettor, to support a heavy engine, when the weight is not materially increased. The framowork is specially-selected, straight-grained spruce. The wires holding the planes aro tho best imported piano wire, i Tho upper covering of the pianos is of tho finest unbleached muslin; mus-lin; the lower, which sustains most of tho strain, is of seven-ounce seven-ounce army duck. These coverings cover-ings aro substantially sewed on a departure from a man-made machine. |
