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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (June 12, 1904)
TIIE ILLUSTRATED BEE. 11C Carpenter's Letter (Continued from Fe-e Twelve.) erf scientific Inr out Ration. W know so lit De of the air and Ita movement that there is much to discover. I have been charged .With attempting: to Invent a flying; ma chine. There mar have been aome reason for such a supposition, but the fact haa no foundation whatsoever. I am experimenting- to discover the properties of aerial flight and the coneltuent elements neces sary to Ita success. When I have ascer tained these facta I may be ready to at tempt to Invent a flying machine, but not pntll then." "What have you dlacovercd?" I aaked. 1 think I have found that there la a pe culiar form In which all thlnga which are to be maintained In the air ahould be made. X have ascertained the shape of the cell Which hi combination with similarly shaped cells must compose the flying body; the trick, as It were, out of which the flying tiouse must be made, the unit of which It steems to me all auch machines must be constructed." ....... . "What Is the unit, Dr. Bell T" I asked. 1 call It the tetrahedron unit, because It lias the form of a tetrahedron. It you will place three matches end to end In the shape of a triangle and . then take three more, resting one end of each at a corner, so that the other ends will meet over the cen ter of the triangle, you will have the skele ton of a tetrahedron. Now tie the ends of ' tie matches together, and you will And that the framework, as a whole, la won derfully strong In comparison with Ita Weight In aerial navigation we And that the questions of strength and weight are all-Important ones, and that new elementa must be taken Into consideration which prior to thla time have not been appreci ated. To support a heavy body in the air a greater surface In proportion to the Weight must be had than la generally sup posed. In Increasing the size we find that the weight Increases as the cube of the di mensions, whereas the surface Increases only as a square' of the dimensions. jffLmonNewcomb recently brought this out tn an article"-!'.? grrjr..'-wf tlllty. of trying to make successful flying machines. In other words, as you increase the sire of your machine you do not in crease Its ability to sustain Itself In the air. The moJel may work perfectly, but the great machine made on that model will for thla reason not do at all. Thla has been proven again and again by actual experi ment It waa so with the weather bureau kites made of a box shape. Those of ordi nary else flew very well, but the great kites constructed In exactly the same way, with the hope that they would carry me teorological recording Instruments high In to the air, would not rise at all. "This fact led me to experiment to And a Shape which when Increaaed or multiplied In alse might have the sustaining aurface and the weight equally multiplied. I have discovered this In the tetrahedron, which X believe to be the only unit of construction In the flying machine of the future." How could you teat thlaT" I asked. "Only by actual experiments," waa the reply. "I have made kites of thla shape In various sixes and combinations and have clentlfloally measured their flying capacity and strength. I have discovered that kites, large and small, may be made of these units, and that they are stronger In proportion to their weight and else than any klteg ever made. "But I can show you models and photo graphs of my work In this line," said Dr. Bell. He thereupon left the room and a little later returned bringing several large crap books filled with photographs and also some kites and kite frames of a pe culiar chape. This Is the way I note down my work," aid he, as he opened a scrap book. "I find It almost Impossible to keep a record f Inventive progress with pen or pencil. Just at the time one makes a discovery he la so interested In going on with It that fee falls to put down the fact and the time. The result there Is danger of losing the record and the possibility of establishing Ills priority of the discovery. Now I have one man who does nothing else but make nap abots of everything I do In the way of experiment, This Is on of the books bowing our Investigations In this par tlcular line." ' Dr. Pll here banded me the volume. It Was filled with photographs of kites of vaii ous shapes; In flight at rest and In con i traction. Borne were made of small tet rahedral units combined together Into a Dying kite as big as a good-slsed cottage, others had other shapes. There were large Ingle kites with a framework of aluminum tubes and small kites of silk with wooden frames; little kites flying from the hands of Mrs. Bell and other ladles of the family; and kites so big that a steamer on the bay or a man upon horseback had to ruab along with hen. to raise them Into the air. "The strength of the unit was shown la many of the photographs, and also .the great power of the 'flying tetrahedrals. pome. Dr. Bell told me, were strong enough to carry a man Into the air and mme hsd eats In them Where on might sit If he wished to risk a flight., Others when they flew up from the water cerrled the tetrahe dral boats oa which they rested up with. them, and Dr. Bell said that some had al- most torn the masts from the steam tug used to raise them. . There were photo graphs of men hanging to the framework to test IU strength, and. In ahort, a won derful collection of snapshots, showing every phase of these hundreds of experi ments In their results. "Tou can easily test the sustaining power of each kite," said Dr. Bell, as he looked at one of the pages of the book. "We know, for Instance, that If It takes a horse running at the rate of ten mles an hour to raise a kite so that It may be kept In the air an engine of one home-power will do the same, provided the weight Is not greater than the power exerted by the kite as It flies. We have had such kites raise Into the "air bodies weighing 600 pounds and more. Such a kite could there fore sustain an engine end machinery Which might direct Its flight, provided their weight altogether was not more than 600 pounds. I say this, not to Indicate that I - have Invented a flying michlne, hut merely to give you an Idea along what llnea I am working. I am merely seeking to discover the foundation principles upon -which such an Invention must be based. When I have reached that end I may try to go farther, but not until then.". . FRA NKr a.' CARPKNTEfc. . 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