Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1910 — EDISON INVENTS AEROPLANE [ARTICLE]

EDISON INVENTS AEROPLANE

Wizard of Very Modest in Referring to Machine. Thomas A. Edison admits he has invented a heavier than air flying machine. “I admit that I have a little patent along aeroplane lines, but please don’t say much about it, fop really I have too much to do to become interested in the navigation of the air It te a simple little things that I sent along to Washington with some other patents a long time ago,” Briefly described, the invention consists of a basket hung on a vertical shaft, on the upper end of which re- * volve box kites or other form of aeroplares at sufficient speed to lift the whole affair. Its chief merit is that the center of gravity being low, keeps the machine in automatic balance