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Show GOOD FOR POLAR EXPLORERS Frenchman's Invention of Much Bene-' fit to Those Who Track Waste Places of the Earth. Count Bertrand de Lessups, son of the famous Frenchman of Suez canal fame, has constructed an air-propelled machine which Is capable of attaining & speed of from fifteen to sixty miles an hour over the biiow, according td the condition of the frozen roads. The shoe-shaped chassis is attached -to, broad, flat metal runners, and vibration vibra-tion is reduced to a minimum by the' addition of strong springs. ' The propeller pro-peller behind the pilot is well guarded guard-ed by a metal screen as a protection against any one approaching it close-( ly. When snow falls wheels are placed on the projecting pins, which lift the eki from the ground, and the car will then attain a speed of nearly one hundred hun-dred miles an hour. Some such machine ma-chine as this is to be taken into- the antarctic regions by Shackleton with his forthcoming expedition. Abroad this form of amusement is called aero-skiing. |