Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1869 — A Practical Flying Machine. [ARTICLE]

A Practical Flying Machine.

A member of one of the oldest, and most successful business establishments In this dty has been for several years exptri* menting with a flying machine thatjhe has Invented and is now sanguine, will be entirely successful. Dtecrirding faitrr^r 1 the common modesof.nmptßjg Jib&fltffo.j Culties of keeping the machine pendant in the air-by some form at balloon. oftr Taducah inventor elevates ton machfrie.-and keeps it afloat, by mechanical means, and, the use of materials thatrcoiHbfne sWfasgifi ' with extension., . His. present, i which may be called indeed a model, cm. ploys two engines; with twb-irich tMltfder.s, and its supporting and propkiWte agency is a perpendicular shaft with-two-. arms, to which beautiful wings trre fit-* tached. These wmgs strike the air,at-' about the same angleas-the wings of a . bird do, and Operate riorC like screw 1 ' propellers than the wings ifefcdf >. other flying machine yet steam was put on last Thrtrsniy ln the presence of sevenfl competent machinists,', and everything ; worked to & satisfactory. • manner. The inventor is*now engaged in ascertaining, by practical eerperimeit, de * exact lifting power of hjs machine. Those y to whom Kc‘has exhibited it afe dbMifnious in their opinion that he will atiiievc /. the, great feat of making a marijinq, that-, will fly; V’ll be elevated or depressed’ at'\ pleasure ; will-go iu a direction cont®xy? to the wind and will not need a balloon, to give it buoyancy.— Paducah '-*-An Eastern paper has the following i “A few days ago we chronicled the dis- 1 covery of the great Shenandoah diamond. It was picked up to throw at a rabbit, sup-/, ing it to be a worthless stone, "bat afterward discovered to jbe a gem of great value. And now a son of Mr. Robert Davidson, in Montgomery county, Mary- . land; has picked up another stone to some purpose. liudid sir to throw at some to;, ; trading cows; but, lo! the pebble Was, found td be a gold nugget weighing tohto*ounces, and worth $l5O. Of course* cows were permitted to depart in peajqe. The mmget was carried home, and since then unexperienced Californian has prospected thq entire fam, finffihg ‘ numerous pieces of virgin gold the size of a grain of wheat’ The surrounding farina are tb be; prospected, and the whole countv apd State arc to be searched. The phudsopher’s stone is now discovered to be ike stone which Southern boys pick , pp. jp. throw at rabbits and cows.” ,