Logan Republican | 1914-09-10 | Page 7 | Man's First Wings

Man's First Wings. Tho first effort to equip man with wings that ho might fly through the, air, says tho American Boy, seems to have been inado by Watson E. Quln-by, Quln-by, a Dolcuvaru inventor, who patented a flying machine many years ago. Tho, inventor used tho bat as the model In, designing tho wings. Previous flying) machines had been constructed, on tho, balloon principle, but Quinby's apparatus appara-tus conslstod ot wings 12 feet In diameter di-ameter and somt-circular in form. Tho wings wero attached to tho limbs of no porson flying, and tho motions used wero very similar to thosu used, In swimming. Tho wings rofused to work, however, and no ono over suc-T cceded in flying with' tholr aid.