User:LTA
Contents
Templates
- {{Techtype patent report}}
- {{Patents of inventor|{{PAGENAME}}}}
- {{USpatentsources|01234567}}
- See also Templates
Technical
- To mass link the Brockett 1921 scan on publication pages run a search/replace, with regular expressions option turned on, for
- ..Brockett .1921..., page ([0-9]*),
- [[Brockett (1921)]], page [https://archive.org/details/bibliographyofa190916broc/page/$1 $1],
Expansion depth error
- Category:Pages where expansion depth is exceeded
- To correct the "expansion depth" error on publication pages, run a search/replace for:
- {{<span class="error">Expansion depth limit exceeded</span>|Original title=
- {{Publication|Original title=
Problems to solve
- How to automatically include a template (with no input necessary) in a new page created by form. Prompted by wish to get Form:Occupation to make a new page which automatically includes Template:People by occupation.
Add illustrations when possible
- Maxim, 1891, Aerial navigation, The power required, scan
- Valentine, Tomlinson, and Maxim, 1902, Travels in space; a history of aerial navigation, scan
Threads
- Freudenthal
- Revue aérienne
- Aircraft
- Marchis
- Hervé
- Dollfus & Bouché
- Nadar - Géant
- w:fr:s:Catégorie:Aéronautique
- Abridgments
- L'Aviette
- Arson of the gas co.
- Les dirigeables - André 1902
- Air Service Journal
- Aéronaute
- The Aeroplane
- Zeppelin airship patent and others from Canadian Patent Office Record, which can be searched electronically
- Avia (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433094128141;view=1up;seq=8)
Revisit after Brockett upload
- subject field search for "Aeronautics" on Internet Archive – revisit after Brockett upload
Unopened
Topics
- Leonardo Torres Quevedo
- Société d'encouragement pour la locomotion aérienne au moyen d'appareils plus lourds que l'air, Gabriel de La Landelle, etc. ; 1865 report 1864
- coefficient de sécurité (Patent FR-1908-385120) ; Berget, 1908, Ballons, Dirigeables et Aéroplanes, pp. 49–50 – using in the same sense?
- strikes: [1], [2],
- Henry Woodhouse (template pubs), Pan-American Aeronautic Federation
- Chalais-Meudon: continue Grilleau, 1884
Books
- Grahame-White & Harper, 1912, The Aeroplane in War
- Ludlow Hammer Post, 1907, Navigating the air; a scientific statement of the progress of aeronautical science – individual chapters in Brockett, will all get uploaded eventually
- Rives, 1908, Rapport sur Le Premier Salon de l'Aeronautique
- Brunet y Viadera, 1910, Curso de Aviación – follow up bibliography
Lexical
- Baeder and Dubouchet, 1910, Dictionnaire illustré de la navigation aérienne (at C)
- Aeronautics Dictionaries on HT
- [3], [4], etc.
Reference
In progress
- Eduard Zaparka
- DPMA text search for "Klasse 77h"
- Image recovery: Category:Pages with broken file links
- User:LTA/DEpatents
- User:LTA/ITpatents
- User:LTA/RU
- Abridgments 1867–76: resume in 1868
Long-term research agenda
- Motivation for filing patents
- Read writings of top filers
- Writings of and about top agents (Munn & Co., Armengaud family)
Publications of possible special importance in the development of aviation
Publications giving details about possibly unpatented inventions
- Munro, 1836, Mode of preserving the gas of balloons. Carbonic acid for ballast
- Cabot, 1896, Screw Propulsion by Foot-Power
- Lawrence Hargrave, various publications from 1884 through 1914
- Bazin, 1908, L'aéroplane à ailes battantes d'Albert Bazin (Bazin had two aero patents but neither seems to describe this aircraft)
Timeline of aviation events 1909–1911:
- (See also Exhibitions and conferences by year)
1909
- January-February Berlin Flugversuche exhibition
- July: 1st Internationale Luftschiffahrt Austellung in Frankfurt
- July 25: Daily Mail's $5000 prize for crossing the Channel won by Louis Blériot
- August: Reims Air Meet
- September: Exposition de la Locomotion Aerienne; Brescia exhibition (?)
- October: Doncaster unofficial exhibition (and Doncaster exhibition?); Blackpool official exhibition (?); Johannisthal exhibition (?)
- Zurich aero meeting (October?)
- Munich Exhibition 1909
1910
- January: Dominguez Field exhibition
- June: Montreal exhibition, Indianapolis exhibition
- July: Atlantic City exhibition
- August: Asbury Park exhibition
- September: Harvard-Boston Aero Meet
- October: Belmont Park exhibition
- November: Baltimore exhibition, Chattanooga exhibition
- December: Air Carnival in Sydney
- Barcelona exhibition, Nice exhibition, Lyons exhibition, Le Havre exhibition, Cannes exhibition, Rouen exhibition, Geneva exhibition, Copenhagen exhibition, Brussels exhibition, St. Petersburg exhibition, Budapest exhibition, Florence exhibition, Milan exhibition, Heliopolis exhibition, Burton exhibition, Lanark exhibition, Blackpool exhibition, Cardiff exhibition, Bournemouth exhibition, St. Louis exhibition 1910,
1911
- May: Hendon meet (same as Hendon meeting)
- December: 3rd Paris aviation exhibition
French dominance of exhibition circuit
Hallion, 2003, p. 316:
- France owed its dominance of European and international aeronautics to the unabated and energetic expansion of its aviation industry, first evident and Reims. By 1912 French aircraft clearly constituted the "gold standard" of international design, holding all significant records. A review of all unrestricted international air competitions held between 1909 and 1914—that is, air competitions open to all entrants and not limited to, say, just French or British or German designs—demonstrates how rapidly French aviation predominated. Out of 14 competitions, French aircraft (flown by French or non-French airmen) won 11, a staggering 79 percent. French aviators or airmen flying French aircraft won the first German and British national air competitions. That proved too much: not surprisingly, both countries quickly limited their national competitions to entrants flying their own airplanes, not those originating in other countries.
Zeitgeist
The year 1908 was one of experiments in aerial navigation; 1909 is the year of the most brilliant achievements.
In 1908 the magnificent experiments of the Wright Brothers excited the admiration of all to a supreme degree; and in the month of October of the same year two audacious aviators, Farman and Blériot, leaving their experimenting grounds, boldly set out into the realm of practice. On October 30 Farman accomplished the first "aerial voyage," by traveling from Châlons to Rheims, passing over villages, forests, and hills; and the next day Blériot achieved the first "cross-country" journey in a closed circle between Toury and Artenay, making two descents en route, and restarting under his own effort, without any launching apparatus, finally returning to his starting point.
The "Conquest of the Air," commenced in 1885 by the first dirigible, La France, built by Colonel Renard, is to-day asserted in the new development—aviation.
But now, in 1909, our human birds have excelled. By a remarkable flight, Blériot, more fortunate than his rival, Latham, who came to grief off his destination, succeeded in crossing the Channel on July 25, thus realising through the atmosphere that entente cordiale made between the two nations; and in the month of August, on the plain of Bethany, near Rheims, in the first "aviation meeting" that has been held, all previous records were beaten. Paulhan, upon a biplane built by Voisin, covered 131 kilometres; Latham, on an Antoinette monoplane, traversed 154.500 kilometres without a stop; and Henri Farman, in a triumphant continuous flight, ultimately completed 180 kilometres in 3 hours 4 minutes 56 seconds. IN addition to these marvellous exploits, Hubert Latham, striving to secure the victory for height, rose to 156 meters; and Curtis, the American, won the speed trophy by travelling 30 kilometres in 21 minutes 15 seconds—that is to say, flew at 75 kilometres per hour.
If one also recalls the fact that it was in the course of this same year, 1909, that the two most remarkable voyages were accomplished by dirigible balloons, which have definitely asserted the possibility of their practical application, one will understand that the highway of the atmosphere is now open and that the "Conquest of the Air" has become an accomplished fact.
(The Conquest of the Air: Aeronautics, Aviation: history, theory practice, 1909)
Discovered on archive.org: a vast collection of aeronautical songs (sheet music and cover art).
Predictions
Henry Litchfield West
"If only the same proportion of increase is maintained, the year 2000 will see a distance of 600 miles covered in an hour—the journey from Washington to Chicago occupying only 70 or 80 minutes. This seems incredible but is not more marvelous than it would have seemed in 1800 to suggest that the 40 miles between Washington and Baltimore could be traveled in 40 minutes."
"The limitations imposed by the attraction of gravitation upon land and by the frictional resistance of an almost solid mass of water at sea suggest that, after all, the great discoveries of the coming century, in the matter of transportation, will be in the navigation of the air. . . . The time is not far distant when aerial cars will ply between great centers of population, arriving and departing upon fixed schedules and carrying their human cargoes. . . . Aerial navigation seems to be the only method now apparent by which time and space can be more completely annihilated than it is at present."
- Henry Litchfield West, Washington Post, 31 December 1901; quoted in Hallion, 2003, p. 183.
H. G. Wells
"Few people, I fancy, who know of the work of Langley, Lilienthal, Pilcher, Maxim, and Chanute but will be inclined to believe that long before the year A.D. 2000, and very probably before 1950, a successful aeroplane will have soared and come home safe and sound."
- H. G. Wells, Anticipations (1902), p. 208; quoted in Hallion, 2003, p. 183.
Other comments
"And if man were to learn to fly – woe, to what heights would his rapaciousness fly?"
- Friederich Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra ; quoted in Wohl, 1994, Passion for Wings p. 3