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Show GOOD FOR POLAR EXPLORERS Frenchman's Invention of Much Benefit 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 a speed of from fifteen to sixty miles an hour over the snow, according to 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-' close-' ly. When snow falls wheels are placed 1 on the projecting pins, which lift the ' Bki from the ground, and the car will r 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. |