Show The Wizard of the A Air r. r Santos Dumont nu may bo well velb called the time of the Iho air I to for or I nil all cUte to construct a n navigable na an balloon are arc ely Jun when compared with time the young youn I brilliant achievements II las ins only one rival au as fat far at a us conquering conquer conquer- mg tug the time air all J is concerned and auth that lint nunis manis nun man is Sis Signor Marconi with the difference hat the mEte tends sends messages through the mime space whilst tho lie former send Santos Dumont was born at Rio dc de Janeiro Brazil In 1873 anti and Is the lie 4 of a a. family of ton ten sons son Very ery arly any In life flying Hying machines and balloons bal bal- loons absorbed the Iho whole while of or his attention at- at t. t and anti he lie to devote v time the riddle that has hal i i ilife iliCe life liCe to solving baffled so many an and has lias cost so man many ii lC In 1878 he visited France U of ot get get- limbed Mont Blanc by way his hIli nerves In good trim trAin If he er c had imad an any ammy and auth in the same sanie year yoal he Ill visited II Parl iari and amid a ascended from froni the tIme Jardin d' d In the smallest balloon ever or made malte In Seim- Seim of that lint year cm ho he made ma e the first driven cn by a able Ic balloon ever er PC U oleum motor but unfortunately It was wrecked at the time first o experiment Nothing daunted he be set sel to lo work vork to lo and auth by gradual remedy its process am and c experiments at length he lie succeeded In launching a 1111 navigable airship In iii which he lie Hew torn nun 1 St SL Cloud near nem Pails Parl round lound the time I Eiffel tower towel and home again a dis- dis Paris Paris na the ance- ance of eight ht miles nay I whole tide hole world worl world was was as amazed ama cd and amid saw liV In Iii Inthe herald of or a amel anew the time tilt the young oung Inventor new mel era In Hying machines This encouraged en en- cd the lie young inventor and anti he lie heas the Uie OOOO was as tempted to try Iry for offered by a generous iH Frenchman named to whoever who who- ever ver succeeded In sailing salling in the air all from Iho tho lie A Aero ro club to lo the tower tow tow- er ii t and amid home again in iii half an aim an hour Dumont DUll accepted the challenge and ancl a great crowd gathered to tu see one of the time bravest and anti most extraordinary feats t o er CI cr attempted ii by a man The first lime time Dumont was unsuccessful his balloon I not nol answering properly to tho time But lint on Oct 20 1901 he again attempted to gain g-aln tho time Deutsch prize plize and atul after a u brilliantly successful trial missed the lie reward 1 by being on only emily fi tv seconds o over time tine Mons 1 Deutsch a n thoroughly Just but exacting exact exact- Ins ing sportsman would not eon consider the tho prize won von My 1 conditions were vero to au all from St. St Cloud round the time Eiffel tower lower and amid an homo home again in thirty live minutes ho said Santos Dumont has hUH nob nobly acquitted d himself but bul Is lorly Lorty seconds behind time hue Ho lie must mut iry try again The lh President of or Brazil presented him hinl In recognition of or lila his services ser ices and In order that mo moo might deole de- de e- e vole tote time the spending of It to lo prosecute experiments Tho Ilio same year ho lie made male a sensational Might ht from front to lo Harrow Horrow and amid back bade again ii i. id his lila ship airship time the Dumont VI J Such SuchO an O intrepid master of or aerial navigation as ns Santos Dumont cannot hope hopr to escape disaster and lie lie- has hag had some miraculous cl escapes rom rein death eath When competing for thol tho time l Deutsch prize for lur the tho first time in him insight sight light I ht of or nil all the tho spectators tho lie air air- horror suddenly to everyone's e and ar rd totally collapsed In midair an and amid landed on some hou houses near the Eiffel tl WI Everyone expected hint thal the young Brazilian W was S killed but strange to lo relate he lie received i hut hilt c. c l severe shaking ohal and a ate afew few bruises brul cs whilst tho the airship was t totally tall wl wrecked cl e Tho accident was us due dime the Inventor III saW said to tho the ventilator refusing to act al the crucial moment lii In 1902 when he Ime heas was as s sailing acro across the nean hum il airship a cO collapsed l and an fell CeU ii lo the the- Day Bay of or Monaco Monaco- Tho The aeronaut was picked up un un- J A hurt by boats but his ship was rendered ren remi- tiered dered useless s For tho the past three hren o years cars Santos Dumont has hag steadily been hec navigating the alt air and amid diligently pursuing pur par suing suing- his all ail stud study and mak making ing new 1101 Inventions in with which ho lie hopes to perfect a a. navI navigable balloon Indeed ho he claims that It I 14 lit Ilos possible to reach tho time north pole and that he has solved pd time the th riddle of giving hInS a n new Impulse to aerial navigation lg As ho tightly z sa says what whal seemed impossible iIo 11 years s ago scorns possible now The Tue two tio gleat drawbacks to the haloon balI hal bal I loon lie he says s. are arc condensation expansion Ion find and because of these de deCelli defects de- de forts Celli it Jt Is not nol possible for fOl a balloon to lo stay In lii the time air for Cm or a much longer period pencil th than n four CoUl hours tho though time the record Ls Lo for or a little under tinder thirty thirty- six hours houts The rho higher a 0 balloon b goc Joc the colder the time gas becomes with which It l Is inflated bunted and thus con cond condenses lenses Ballast Hal Bal last has to be bc thrown outto out to lo compensate to for fot time the descending of or orthe the time balloon Even time the heat hlat from froni rom tile Ihu sun sUIt expands time the gas and amid raises Iho tho balloon and if the thealo o valve is not nol opened to lo let some of or time the gas goas escape an al ai explosion ex ex- would follow The balloon again alain Is Js greatly by atmos- atmos phone ulc anti and has to be treated anti and nut regulated accord accordingly bigly Now If tho steam which collects In tho time Interior of the lie envelope of oC a a. a spherical balloon can be lie recovered as 5 water vater In Iii a reservoir ol lilted fitted lo to toan an openIng opening open open- ing lug used at the lie bottom Instead of or I evaporating through the time silk flIk then thell M M. Santos Dumont declares a lon stud long led Jell problem will be bet solved Ho lie will viii use petroleum for fill evaporating time the the water vator Into steam again which will when desired expand the Iho balloon and antI II Jl will ill ilsc and amid fall at nt the time will of thu time operator Instead of ur lightening tho time balloon b by throwing ln out ballast by lIy l bUl burning JIS petroleum he lie will Ihl transmute muto the time water tater into ste which will ex expand ox- ox the gas g-as until It produces the time re required re- re lifting force foice Santos Dumont has invented a most Ingenious ance a a. sort of or condenser con con- denser In a series set of aluminum tubes lUbes arranged un vertically Inside the time balloon which will throw out the hot hol steam produced from ft-em rom the water vater heated healed by bylie bythe the lie petroleum so will cause thin the balloon to 0 rJ rise and amid fall when whelm tho lie steam Is Es t turned off |