Publication 182, 1903, The Aeronautical Institute
| Original title | The Aeronautical Institute |
|---|---|
| Simple title | The Aeronautical Institute |
| Authors | |
| Date | 1903 |
| Countries | US |
| Languages | en |
| Keywords | Aeronautical Institute and Club, William Henson, John Stringfellow, Frederick J. Stringfellow, Aerial Steam Transit Company, Octave Chanute, Wright Brothers |
| Journal | Aer. World |
| Related to aircraft? | 1 |
| Page count | 1 |
| Word count | 273 |
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Full text:
The Aeronautical Institute The meeting of the Aeronautical Institute and Club at the St. Bride's Institute was of particular interest, dealing as it did at once with the extreme infancy of the flying machine and with its most up-to-date possibilities. Mr. F. Stringfellow's paper dealt with the first genuinely successful flying machine, the steam-propelled machine built by his father iji 1848. The lecturer briefly referred to the first of historical flying machines, Gerard's birdlike model of 1784, to Sir George Carey's efforts of 1810, and to the bill introduced into Parliament by Mr. Roebuck in 1843 sanctioning the flotation of the Aerial Steam Transit Company. In the same year, for seven weeks. Messrs. Henson and Stringfellow attacked the problem on the Chard Downs. Finally in 1848 the modern Daedalus Mr. Stringfellow found success. Before the meeting to-night were exhibited the framework, the propellers, the tail, and the car of his historic machine. Mr. Stringfellow's success was sixty years ago, but there have only been three successful flying machines since. The most recent and successful of all is, of course, Professor Layley's machine of1896, which covered a distance of one and three quarter miles. At the conclusion of Mr. Stringfellow's paper Mr. Octave Chanute. presumably the greatest living expert on the history of aeronautics, briefly described the intentions of the aeronautical section of the St. Louis exposition. He also set forth the experiments now being carried on in the United States, particularly the successful efforts by the brothers Wright to secure gliding flight. All the evidence went to show that we have made little advance in principle. Only we have improved motors and lighter and better construction.
Sources
- Brockett 1910, page 15, entry 182: Aeronautical (The) Institute. Aer. World, Vol. 1, No. 11, 1903, Glenville, Ohio, pp. 261-262. S (182
- Scan at Internet Archive
