LONDON TO NEW YORK IN TWENTY FOUR HOURS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1205, 8 December 1882, Page 2

LONDON TO NEW YORK IN TWENTY FOUR HOURS.

An aerial trip from London to New York in 24 hours ! Such a feat, says the European Mail, can hardly be said to have been dreamt of before, and certainly never entered into our philosophy prior to the experiments recently made in Paris, where a new aerostat or balloon, has been tried with most remarkable results. The new aerostat is cigar shaped. At either end is a fan affixed to a transversal shaft worked by a five-horse power engina The engine emits neither sparks now flame. I It works the fans between seven and and eight hundred revolutions a minute, and has been found to impart an j incredible speed to the balloon, even when steered dead in the eye of the | wind. The* first experiences having proved successful, and shown that ballons could be made to move against atmospherical cui'rent, the construction of the aerostat was improved upon. , The cigar was divided internally by means of a transverse cloth bulk-head qr deck, leaving the upper part for gas and the lower for machinery and ' passengers. But this has again been improved upon, and plans have just been completed for the construction of a tli in steel balloon, with airtight com paitinonts, to be worked by both horizontal and centrifugal fans. This aerostat is designed to carry 1000 passengers, and to make the journey b.tween Paris or London and New

York in less than 24 hours. The machinery has been designed, and will be constructed for the inventor of^the balloon, Mr Edison. Mr Charles Norbeck, the well-known Russian engineer, is conducting the experiments.