Patent GB-1894-13996

Objective: to allow safe air travel by dirigible flying near the ground.

The said system is based on giving vertical or approximately vertical motion to horizontal or approximately horizontal surfaces, preferably of a circular shape, which surfaces may be called "wheels," though they do not turn, as wheels do commonly speaking.

Includes a statement of underlying physics principles.

• Ramiro de Palacios: Engineer, formerly Consul, of No. 15^C, Albrechtstrasse, Steglitz, Prussia
• Wilhelm Goetjes, Engineer, of No. 28, Joachimstahlerstrasse, Berlin
• William Philipps Thompson, F.C.S., M.I.M.E., The Agency for Foreign Patent Solicitors, 6 Lord Street, Liverpool and 6, Bank Street, Manchester, both in the County of Lancaster, and 323 High Holborn, in the County of Middlesex

Sources

• Neilson, 1910, Aeroplane Patents, p72
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• espacenet

Year filed	1894
Year granted	1894
Office	GB
Patent number	13996
Inventors	Ramiro de Palacios, Wilhelm Goetjes
Inventor country	DE, Prussia
Applicant person	William Phillips Thompson
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Applicant is inventor?	Yes
Original title	Improvements in the Art of Aërostation, and Apparatus therefor
English title	Improvements in the Art of Aërostation, and Apparatus therefor
Tech fields	navigation, cargo, piloting, safety, passenger, propulsion, stability, fabric
Filing date	July 20, 1894
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Grant date	September 15, 1894
Granted?	Yes
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Related to aircraft?	Yes
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Patent agent	William Phillips Thompson
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First filing?	No
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Number of text pages	7
Number of diagram pages	3
Number of figures	16
Number of claims	10