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From: John Stepkowski <legion@WERPLE.NET.AU>
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 12:28:44 +1100
Fwd Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 05:09:03 -0500
Subject: Airships - A 'Dim' Idea, Says Edison

Hi All...

In anticipation of the upcoming 100th Anniversary of the 1897 'Airship'
Wave, two short clippings to remind us of the event:

 - John

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  >From ST.LOUIS POST DISPATCH - Airship Wave of 1897


                    EDISON'S OPINION

   An Airship Will be Made, but Recent Stories are Fakes

   NEW YORK, April 20: Thomas A. Edison has no
   confidence in recent Western stories of airships.
   He says they are fakes.  He thinks an airship will
   soon be made, but it will not be on the balloon idea.
   He says:

     "Whenever an airship is made it will not be in
   the form of a balloon. It will be a mechanical
   contrivance, which will be raised by means of a
   powerful motor, which must be made of very light
   weight.  At present no one has discovered such a
   motor, but we never know what will happen.  We
   may wake up tomorrow morning and hear of some
   invention which sets us all eagerly to work within a
   few hours, as was the case with the Roentgen rays.
   Their success may come. I am not, however,
   figuring on inventing an airship. I prefer to devote
   my time to objects which have some commercial
   value.  As the best, airships would only be toys."

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                 IF IT MOVES, TAX IT!

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                   TAX ON AIRSHIPS

     Texas Proposes a New Way To Raise The Wind

   AUSTIN, TEX., April 23: A resolution was
   introduced in The House of Texas Legislature this
   morning setting forth that, inasmuch as it has been
   generally current that an airship was flying around
   Texas carrying passengers and freight, and
   inasmuch as said airship is operating without paying
   any taxes or complying with the rates established
   by the Texas commission, that said commission be
   instructed to establish special rates for the airship
   and see that its management comply with said
   rates.


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