Joel Trout Rice
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Joel Trout Rice (in news stories more commonly appearing as Joel T. Rice) was an aero inventor from Hot Springs, Arkansas.
He founded the Hot Springs Airship Company and created a 50'+ airship called The Arkansas Traveler c. 1908.[1]
By 1909 Rice, with John A. Riggs, had constructed an airship (same as the above?) credited by the New York Times as the "largest dirigible balloon ever built in this country". Leo Stevens created the balloon.[2] The Times also mentioned Rice and Riggs piloting a vessel called the American Eagle, with capacity for 15 passengers, around New York City, during an air expo based in Madison Square Garden.[3]
Patents whose inventor or applicant is Joel Trout Rice
- Patent US-1897-606942 (English title: Flying machine, Filing date: 1897-08-09)
- Patent US-1901-704375 (English title: Flying machine, Supplementary to patent: Patent US-1898-606942, Filing date: 1901-02-21)
- Patent US-1908-914511 (English title: Air-ship, Filing date: 1908-01-30)
- Patent GB-1909-4348 (English title: Air Ships, Filing date: 1909-02-22)
- Patent FR-1909-399998 (English title: Apparatus for rapidly disengaging the basket of a balloon in an accident, Filing date: 1909-02-26)
- Patent CA-1909-119297 (English title: Air ship, Filing date: 1909-03-29)
- Patent US-1917-1247010 (English title: Airship turn-table, Filing date: 1917-03-23)
References
- ↑ Chris Rumley, "Arkansas aviation history", Little Rock Air Force Base, 16 June 2010.
- ↑ "Build Big Airship for Southern Tour: Two Arkansas Men Finishing the Largest Dirigible Balloon Ever Built in America: Its Frame Made of Steel: Balloon is Propelled and Steered from the Front—Aeronauts to Start from Morris Park", New York Times, 10 October 1909.
- ↑ "A Seeing-New-York Airship: Expects to Carry Passengers Over Town from an Aeronautic Show", New York Times, 22 September 1909.
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