Brannon, 1879, The air-boat for arcustatic air travel . . . making aero-navigation facile, rapid, safe, etc.

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Original title The air-boat for arcustatic air travel . . . making aero-navigation facile, rapid, safe, etc.
Simple title The air-boat for arcustatic air travel . . . making aero-navigation facile, rapid, safe, etc.
Authors Philip Brannon
Date 1879
Countries GB
Languages en
Keywords air, boat, air-boat, travel, aero, aero-navigation, aerial navigation, navigation, rapid, safe
Journal
Related to aircraft? 1
Page count 33
Word count
Wikidata id

From en.wp[1]: Patent GB-1870-3272 was Brannon's first patent and was for "the construction of navigable balloons."

Brannon was an enthusiast for powered flight, advocating the use of dirigible balloons to relieve the siege of Paris in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War.[2] In 1879 he published The Air-boat for arcustatic air-travel to advertise more widely his concept of the Arcustat, a dirigible airship which used a novel form of jet propulsion and was not reliant on gas or hot air for buoyancy. He sought in vain to interest the Royal Aeronautical Society in the design, which failed to reach the prototype stage.[3]

This sales pitch seems analogous to that of William Henson.

References

  1. ↑ w:Philip Brannon
  2. ↑ London standard, Letters to the editor, 6 and 15 December 1870.
  3. ↑ Amy Markwick. 1989. Philip Brannon, 1817-1890. Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 45, pp173-182
  • Brockett 1910, page 149, entry 2144: Brannon, P. The air-boat for arcustatic air travel . . . making aero-navigation facile, rapid, safe, etc. London, 1879, 8°, pp. 33, pl. 5. (2144
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