Alva L. Reynolds
Alva L. Reynolds was an aero inventor in Long Beach, California. His personal life is summarized at familysearch.org[1] His middle name was Leman or Leeman.
He made several balloons from a design called the Man Angel. It has been suggested that they drew from Thomas Baldwin's designs. The first one was described as 34 feet long, 14 feet in diameter, a 3000-cubic-foot gas envelope, and a 4 x 10 foot gondola, and somehow weighed 18 pounds.[2] He filed aero patents in Mexico and Canada but apparently not in the U.S., which is hard to explain. Perhaps they were rejected.
Beyond aero, he published a book about the solar system and the ice age in 1911.[3]
He went on to find a way to draw hydro power from ocean waves, which he patented in a variety of ways. It is discussed in Popular Science.[4]
Add Patent CA-1904-89244 - https://patents.google.com/patent/CA89244A
Patents whose inventor or applicant is Alva Reynolds or Alva L. Reynolds
- Patent MX-1904-3916 (English title: Certain new and useful improvements to flying machines)
- Patent CA-1904-89244 (English title: Flying machine, Filing date: 1904-06-07)
- Patent GB-1904-15798 (English title: Improvements in flying machines, Filing date: 1904-07-15)
- Patent MX-1905-5049 (English title: Improvements in flying machines)
Publications by or about Alva Reynolds or Alva L. Reynolds
- Reynolds, 1905, Aerial navigation (Simple title: Aerial navigation)
References
- ↑ https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/25PT-C3N/alva-l.-reynolds-1861-1929
- ↑ John Geoghegan. Thomas Baldwin’s “Aerial Rowboat” Could Do About 4 MPH on a Calm Day. Air and Space magazine, Smithsonian Institution, July 2014.
- ↑ https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Reynolds%2C%20Alva%20L%2E
- ↑ [1]
| Names | Alva Reynolds; Alva L. Reynolds |
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| Birth date | 1861-01-20 |
| Death date | 1929-07-09 |
| Countries | US |
| Locations | Los Angeles; Michigan |
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