New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 16, 1928, Page 2

Steam-Driven Gas Bag of 1872 Was Fwer of Modern Dirigible Early Craft Had Speed of 7 Miles an Hour—Count Zeppelin Was Balloonist It the Frenchman, Henri Giffard, | who flew the firat dirigible ever bullt, could see the giant air liner Grat Zeppelin he would hardly be sble to recognize it as a descendant of his own rickety invention. Giffard's dirigible, which made its first flight in 1852, was 144 feet long and 39 feet wide. It had a steam engine of three horse- power, and in a dead calm could make & speed of nearly seven miles an hour. The Graf Zeppelin is some five times as long, has motors gen- erating over a thousand horse- power and can travel 80 miles an hour, wind or no wind. Yet this new giant of the air is a direct descendant of Giffard's| flimsy dirigible, and of the odd- looking, inefficient alrships that succeeded it. ‘The first flight in a free balloon was made in 1782, Used Steam Engine Giffard devised a stcam | lighter than anything yet seen. It weighed only 462 pounds; and since his dirigible had a lifting| power of nearly two tons — of | which, how'ever, 2794 pounds were taken cars of by the en-| sine and basket — the engine was plenty light enough. His first flight caused a sensa- tion. True, he was not able to fly against the wind; but he was able | to steer, and to move with some freedom when flying across the| wind. | Giffard, incidentally, must have| ‘ad plenty of nerve to fly a ship B which a coal-burning engine | vas suspended close beneath a Uik envelope filled with highly in- lammable coal gas. How the mod- wn dirigible captain, prohibiting ~en the lighting of cigarets| A\board ship, would like that! In 1872 another Frenchman, Du- yuy de Lome, built a dirigible. He lonsidered a steam engine too dan- Jerous, and subsituted a big propel- ar pumped by eight men. ‘This balloon could not do as well sgainst the wind as Giffard's had, | however. Twelve years later two| French army officers devised a di- rigible carrying an electric motor and storage battery with which they were able to travel 14 miles an hour | and buck winds with fair success. The motor would not run more than | an hour. | The invention of the gasoline mo- | tor really made the dirigible practi-| cal. Santos Dumont, another Frenchman, experimented with them extansively, and in the late nineties constructed an $2-foot di- | . rigible carrying a car in which there engine | | the passenger and motor car |end of the car to the other, | the ship's nose. | Delow, | be told in the a number of successful flighta which slowly brought conviction that the dirigible might become a practical conveyance, The famous Count Zeppelin of Germany, however, was the man to whom the dirigible owes its great- est development. Until Zeppelin began his work, al dirigibles were of the non-rigid type. They usually consisted of ci- gar-shaped bags of silk, from which was suspended by a network of ropes. In some early dirigibles the car con- sisted of a long, narrow framework, and the pilot directed the dirigible up or down by walking from one his weight thus depressing or elevating Zeppelin, however, the rigid type, building a long aluminum framework containing 16 separate balloons, the wholc covered with varnished silk. The rigid framework enabled him attach his propellers directly the envelope instead of to the car with a consequent improve- ment in speed. First Zepp in 1900 pelin brought out his dirigibie in 1900, It was amazing size for feet long and 38 feet wide, a gas capacity of 399,000 feet, Two aluminum cars suspended below, each one con- taining a 16-horscpower motor and space for several men. its first trial this ship took five persons aloft, reached a height of 1500 feet and went three and three-quarter miles in 17 min- first of cubic | utes against the wind. From that point on the develop- ment of the dirgible can almost history of the Zep- pelin. While France, England and the United States interested themselves chiefly in heavier-than- air mgachines, Zeppelin, aided by the German government, contin- ued to refine the dirigible, and by | 1910 he had commercial Germany. little success inaugurated regular passenger service in Other countries had with rigid dirigibles until Zeppelins were shot down in France and England during the war and scientists of other nations | could study their construction. In 1910 an American explorer, Walter Wellman, tried to cross the Atlantic in a non-rigid dirig- ible. This ehip was 228 feet long and could travel 26 miles an hour. It cams down in mid-ocean, and | officers and crew were rescued by a steamer. Used in World War The coming of the World War strikingly demonstrated the pos- sibilities of the dirigible. During the course of the war the Ger- mans used 70 Zeppelins, and one of them—the L-59—in 1917 flew from Bulgaria to German FEast Africa with an 11-ton ecargo of ammunition and medicine for be- leagured German troops there. The German garrison surrendered before the dirigible arrived; but the flight set a record, being a | non-stop affair of 4,225 miles. After the war the Germans were was a three-horse-power gasoline motor. With this dirigible he made | forbidden by the peace treaty to tntroduced | to! to | that day—416 | with | On | | | | | | | B. Chapman, were | to Scovill Mfg. Co. | Charge-forming structure NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1928, build dirigibles, and the Zeppelins constructed have been those expressly designed for peace purposes. In the United States the dirig- ible was developed chiefly along non-rigid or semi-rigid lines, until the navy's ili-fated Shenandoah was constructed along the lines of a Zeppelin shot down in France. pany in getting Zeppelin experts on its staf, however, has assured the ‘country of davelopment of the rigid airigible, It is worth noting that Count Zeppelin got his first experience with aeronautics during the Amer- ican Civil War, when he served as an officer in the federal army and was detailed to the balloon squad of the army of the Potomac. Enthused over aviation, the young German went back to Eu- rope to begin his far-reaching ex- periments. Patents Issued to Connecticut People ( List compiled weekly from the zette by the office of Har- Manning, Manning Bros. Shoe William L. Bean, West Haven. Locomotive smoke-box structure. Frederick L. Benzon, . Plainville. Electrical panel board. George Boden and G. A. King, Waterbury. Double-pointed pin fas tener. George Boden, G. A. 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William B. Hopwood, College Point, N. Y., assignor to The Beacon Falls Rubber 8Shoe Co. Beacon Falls, Conn. Nonslip sole. Harvey Hubbell, Bridgeport, de- L. E. Hubbell, executrix. Socket shell. Norman B. Hurd,” New Britain, assignor to The American Hardware Corp. Hospital latch. Joseph Juralewicz, Meriden. Fume guard for cooking ranges. Jerome R. LaVigne, Waterbury, ssignor to Waterbury Buckle Co. Suspender-end loop. Robert C. Legat, New Britain, as- signor to G. E. Prentice Mfg. Co. Shoe fastening. Henry E. Leppert, New Britain, assignor to The Trumbull Electric Mfg. Co., Plainville. Electric-switch box. Joseph M. Lucarelle, Bridgeport, assignor to Dictaphone Corp. Ejec- tor. John M. Lynch, Oakville, and W. 8. Gilmour, a ors to Blake & Johnson Co.. Waterbury. Machine for feeding headed blanks. George B. Pickop, New Haven, assignor to Malleable Iron Fitgings (0., Branford. Vibrator or agitator. Thure A. Quart, Hartford. Oil- liur"lnz apparatu John Reynolds. Montclair, N. 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