Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1895 — Aerial Navigation. [ARTICLE]

Aerial Navigation.

The world is destined to be forced Into giving aerial navigation a respectful consideration and to advance a step or two beyond kite flying. There is to be a gathering In Vienna of the men of all nations who are earnestly endeavoring to work out the problem of aerial navigation. lierr Kress, who has distinguished himself by his clever inventions, has succeeded in producing a flying machine, which he exhibitid in a large hall. Immediately after he had placed the machine on a table it rose ‘dike a bird” flew to the end of the hall, amid the vociferous applause of the spectators. It was said that such machines might be made to exactly resemble birds, in order to be shot at by sportsmen who desire to improve their shooting capacity.— New York Advertiser.