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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Exeter, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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A mechanic in Nancy, Lorraine, is developing a flying machine by studying bird wings. He has achieved short flights from a barn but once fell into a pond due to wind. His device allows safe drops from steeples.
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Feb. 16. A mechanic at Nancy, in Lorraine, has been for some time busied about the invention of a machine for enabling men to fly. He began with weighing the carcases of all the birds he could procure, and measuring the expansions of their wings; to discover the proportion of the one to the other. He has yet succeeded no farther than to fly from off a high barn, and to alight on the ground, at the distance of about 100 yards. In one flight, a gale of wind blowing him a little out of his direction, he fell into a large pond, to the no small entertainment of his neighbours. His wings spread so great a space, that he drops perpendicularly from the highest steeples without danger, descending too gradually to be hurt.
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Nancy, In Lorraine
Event Date
For Some Time As Of Feb. 16
Outcome
partial success: short flights of 100 yards; one incident falling into a pond; safe descents from heights.
Event Details
A mechanic has been inventing a flying machine by weighing bird carcasses and measuring wing expansions to find proportions. He can fly from a high barn to land 100 yards away but once fell into a pond due to wind. His wings allow perpendicular drops from steeples without injury due to gradual descent.