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Show Credit Goes to Maxim for Idea in Aviation Hiram S. Mazim is believed to be (lie (irst to prove that a body heavier t tin ii air could be lifted by its own motive (lower. His crude and complicated compli-cated machine accomplished the feat In July, ISfU. It was supplied with screw propellers weighing 135 pounds each and .measuring 17 feet 10 inches over the tips of the blades. These were attached to a shaft that ran at sin average speed of 375 revolutions a minute, operated by a pair of com-round com-round engines, supplied with stenni from a combined multibular boiler, reed-water beater and-' gas-heating burner, weighing 1,000 pounds, provided pro-vided with 7,G;0 jets, the boiler having hav-ing n heating surface of about BOO feet. The- entire machine, together Willi its full equipment of fuel, water and men, weighed less than 8.000 pounds. A writer in Cassier's Magazine, Maga-zine, in 1S05, observed: "As a mechanical structure this machine is unquestionably a masterpiece master-piece of work and it has been appropriately ap-propriately described by an eminent engineer as 'not an invention, but a museum of inventions.' " Kansas City Star. |