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We may assume that the two brothers had closely studied the engines patented by Daimler and Levassor, and, being of a mechanical turn of mind themselves, they were able to build their own motor, with which they could make experiments in power-driven flight. Before we study the gradual progress of these experiments it would be well to describe the Wright biplane.
"Do you think the bridge will take the weight of my car?" I asked an officer in charge of engineers. "What is it?" "Daimler," I replied. "Well," he said, "there is a risk, of course, but our G.S. wagons have been across and also the artillery, so they may take your bus if you don't bounce her in crossing." "Right-o!" I said. "I will get it down."
The first of the Lebaudy vessels was named the 'Jaune'; its length was 183 feet and its maximum diameter 30 feet, while the cubic capacity was 80,000 feet. The power unit was a 40 horse-power Daimler motor, driving two propellers and giving a maximum speed of 26 miles per hour.
Its demoniac groans and rattles and convulsive quakings appealed to her unspoiled sense of adventure. "Barbara has gone away with the Daimler," said I, "and as I don't keep a fleet of cars, I had to choose between this and the donkey-cart. Get in and don't be so fastidious unless you're afraid " He took no account of my sarcasm. His face fell. He made no attempt to enter the car.
The first airship propelled by the present-day type of internal combustion engine was constructed by Baumgarten and Wolfert in 1879 at Leipzig, the engine being made by Daimler with a view to working on benzine petrol as a fuel had not then come to its own.
The mother was real bothered about it, and so was I. We couldn't rest, either of us. And in the end she ordered the big Daimler and went off to Bramhurst herself. I wanted to go with her, but she wouldn't have me at any price. You know the mother. So I stopped to look after things here. Everyone cleared off this morning, thank the gods. I don't think anyone smelt a rat.
However, had it not been for two developments, neither of them immediately related to the motor car, we should never have had this efficient method of transportation. The real "fathers" of the automobile are Gottlieb Daimler, the German who made the first successful gasoline engine, and Charles Goodyear, the American who discovered the secret of vulcanized rubber.
France had to wait for the Lebaudy brothers, just as Germany had to wait for Zeppelin and Parseval. Two German experimenters, Baumgarten and Wolfert, fitted a Daimler motor to a dirigible balloon which made its first ascent at Leipzig in 1880.
They hurried outside. The man was nowhere in sight. The cashier summoned the head porter. "A gentleman has just come out," he exclaimed, "tall and fair, very carefully dressed, with a single eyeglass! Which way did he go?" "He's just driven off in a big Daimler car, sir," the porter answered. "I noticed him particularly. He spoke to the chauffeur in Austrian." Laverick looked out into the Strand.
Major Von Gross, commander of a Balloon Battalion, produced semi-rigid dirigibles from 1907 onward. The second of these, driven by two 75 horse-power Daimler motors, was capable of a speed of 27 miles an hour; in September of 1908 she made a trip from and back to Berlin which lasted 13 hours, in which period she covered 176 miles with four passengers and reached a height of 4,000 feet.
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