Boys' Second Book of Inventions
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Baker Ray Stannard. Boys' Second Book of Inventions
CHAPTER I. THE MIRACLE OF RADIUM
CHAPTER II. FLYING MACHINES 1
CHAPTER III. THE EARTHQUAKE MEASURER
CHAPTER IV. ELECTRICAL FURNACES
CHAPTER V. HARNESSING THE SUN
CHAPTER VI. THE INVENTOR AND THE FOOD PROBLEM
CHAPTER VII. MARCONI AND HIS GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS
CHAPTER VIII. SEA-BUILDERS
CHAPTER IX. THE NEWEST ELECTRIC LIGHT
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Among the inventors engaged in building flying machines the most famous, perhaps, is M. Santos-Dumont, whose thrilling adventures and noteworthy successes have given him world-wide fame. He was the first, indeed, to build a balloon that was really steerable with any degree of certainty, winning a prize of $20,000 for driving his great air-ship over a certain specified course in Paris and bringing it back to the starting-point within a specified time. Another experimenter who has had some degree of success is the German, Count Zeppelin, who guided a huge air-ship over Lake Geneva, Switzerland, in 1901.
Carl E. Myers, an American, an expert balloonist, has also built balloons of small size which he has been able to steer. And mention must also be made of M. Severo, the Frenchman, whose ship, Pax, exploded in the air on its first trip, dropping the inventor and his assistant hundreds of feet downward to their death on the pavements of Paris.
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He now made ready to compete for the Deutsch prize of $20,000. The winning of this prize demanded that the trip from Saint-Cloud to the Eiffel Tower, around it and back to the starting place, a distance of some eight miles, should be made in half an hour. For this purpose he finished a much larger air-ship, Santos-Dumont V., in 1901. After a trial, made on July 12, which was attended by several accidents, the inventor decided to make a start early on the following morning, July 13. As early as four o'clock he was ready, and a crowd had begun to gather in the park.
At 6.20 the great sliding doors of the balloon-house were pushed open, and the massive inflated occupant was towed out into the open space of the park. The big pointed nose of the balloon and its fish-like belly resembled a shark gliding with lazy craft from a shadow into light waters. In the basket of the car stood the coatless aëronaut, who laughed and chatted like a boy with the crowd around him.
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