Show credit goes to maxim for idea in aviation allram airam S bazim Is believed to be the first to prove that a body heavier than air could be lifted by its own motive power ills crude and complicated machine accomplished tile the feat in july it was wag supplied wibb screw propellers weighing pounds each and measuring 17 feet 10 inches over the tips of the blades these were attached to a shaft that ran at an average speed of revolutions a minute operated by a pair of compound engines surphes with steam from a combined multi bular boiler feed water heater and gas heating beating burner weighing 1000 pounds provided with jets the boiler having baving a heating beating surface of about feet the alie entire machine together with its full equipment of fuel water and men weighed less than pounds A writer in canslers Cass lers magazine in observed As a mechanical structure this machine Is unquestionably a masterpiece of work and it has been appropriately described by an eminent engineer as not nn invention but a museum of inventions kansas city S star t a r |