Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 January 1919 — Curtiss Is Credited With Originating Hydroplane [ARTICLE]

Curtiss Is Credited With Originating Hydroplane

The idea of the hydroplane was suggested in patent specifications by Gugo Matullath of New York, 1899, but it had its practical origin in Glenn Curtiss, who added floats to the airplane with which he was experimenting over Lake Keuka in 1908. These were placed under each wing, so that in case of accident the machine would not sink. Langeln and others had made their experimental flights over bodies of water for the same reasons. Probably the first to make the floats an integral part of the machine .was Fabre, who on March 28, 1910, made the first flight with a practical hydroplane at Martignes, on the Seine. Cur-, tlss soon abandoned floats and built boat bodies, and for this accomplishment he received the A£ro Club of America trophy in 1911.