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Paucton stated that, since a man is capable of sufficient force to overcome the weight of his own body, it is only necessary to give him a machine which acts on the air 'with all the force of which it is capable and at its utmost speed, and he will then be able to lift himself in the air, just as by the exertion of all his strength he is able to lift himself in water.
For some inexplicable reason, Paucton was not satisfied with the term 'helicopter, but preferred to call it a 'pterophore, a name which, so far as can be ascertained, has not been adopted by any other writer or investigator.
It does not appear that Paucton went beyond theory, nor is there in his theory any advance toward practical flight da Vinci could have told him as much as he knew.
In 1768 Paucton conceived the idea of an apparatus with two screws, suspensive and propulsive. In 1781 Meerwein, the architect of the Prince of Baden, built an orthopteric machine, and protested against the tendency of the aerostats which had just been invented. In 1784 Launoy and Bienvenu had maneuvered a helicopter worked by springs.
'It would seem, says Paucton, 'that in the pterophore, attached vertically to a carriage, the whole built lightly and carefully assembled, he has found something that will give him this result in all perfection. In construction, one would be careful that the machine produced the least friction possible, and naturally it ought to produce little, as it would not be at all complicated.
And yet there are still quite a number of people who persist in stating that Bleriot was the first man to fly across the Channel! A study of the development of the helicopter principle was published in France in 1868, when the great French engineer Paucton produced his Theorie de la Vis d'Archimede.
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