The September 1 , 1896 San Francisco Call ( San Francisco , CA ) ran this image of artificer Dr. C. A. Smith ’s fly car . evidently Smith had a model of his airship propped up on two stools in a shop on Market Street in San Francisco . The functional rendering of the auto was to be 105 feet in duration and have a capacitance of nearly 90,000 cubic feet of H .
It looks just like the business enterprise end of a rocket . It has a conical point in time , a pear-shaped body and at the rear death a brass fan whir lustily every time a live telegram is hitch on to the electric motor in the interior of the concern . Two wings , like those of a beetle , rise and fall from the top of the cylinder , and a few small window and three rudder make up the belated of fly machine . [ continue scan here ]
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