Israel Lancaster

Israel Lancaster was an aero inventor in Chicago.

Octave Chanute and Robert H. Thurston invited Lancaster to speak at the August 1886 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Buffalo. Lancaster's talk, entitled "The Soaring Bird", described his two decades of bird observations and experiments with models. Lancaster's presentation was a bit of a disappointment and there was outrage at the sequel when he failed to demonstrate flying models.

Patents whose inventor or applicant is Israel Lancaster

• Patent US-1902-706832 (English title: Covering for aeroplanes, Filing date: 1901-11-26)
• Patent US-1905-785740 (English title: Covering for aeroplanes, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1902-706832, Filing date: 1904-07-12)

Publications by or about Israel Lancaster

• Lancaster, 1882, Artificial flight (Simple title: Artificial flight, Journal: Annual Report of the Aëronautical Society of Great Britain)
• Lancaster, 1885, The problem of the soaring bird (Simple title: The problem of the soaring bird, Journal: American Naturalist)
• Lancaster, 1886, Gravitation and the soaring birds (Simple title: Gravitation and the soaring birds, Journal: American Naturalist)
• Lancaster, 1886, Mechanics of soaring (1) (Simple title: Mechanics of soaring (1), Journal: American Naturalist)
• Lancaster, 1886, Mechanics of soaring (2) (Simple title: Mechanics of soaring (2), Journal: American Naturalist)
• Lancaster, 1886, The soaring of birds (Simple title: The soaring of birds, Journal: American Naturalist)
• Lancaster, 1886, The wings of birds (Simple title: The wings of birds, Journal: American Naturalist)
• Lancaster, 1902, Travel in air (Simple title: Travel in air, Journal: Engineer)
• Lancaster, 1904, Flying of birds and the art of flying (Simple title: Flying of birds and the art of flying, Journal: Scient. Amer. Suppl.)
• Lancaster, 1908, Observations and tests of marvelous soaring power of birds in calm and storm (Simple title: Observations and tests of marvelous soaring power of birds in calm and storm, Journal: Aeronautics)