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Der Herausgeber W. R. Hearst war Käufer eines Lilienthal-Apparates und beschreibt Empfang und Erprobung. Der Gleiter wird als "The Journal's Machine" bezeichnet. In den Abbildungen nach Originalfotos sind mehrere bekannte Fotografien zusammengefügt (Fliegebergszene 1895 und Flugfoto Anschütz (1893) Wesentliche Zitate: "the only flying machine in the world that flies. [...] Lilienthal ist not after money. He seeks power, not profits. [...] The journal, acting upon Lilienthal's suggestion, determined to test the machine and discover if the claims of the inventor were well founded, so an order was given the German for pair of his wings. [...] it is made almost entirely of closely woven muslin, washed with collodion to render it impervious to air, [...] most effective form of wing was that whose convexity, as measured by the versed sine of the arc, should be one-twelfth of the breadth of the wing. [...] A hill ideally fitted for the experiment was found in the lawn facing the magnificent country residence of Mr. J. Harper Bonnell, and located mear Farrettson, Staten Island. [...] Mr. Harry B. Bodine, of Bayonne, N. J., who has acquired more than a local reputation in many kinds of sport [...] I think that flying is an ideal sport, and that it is vound to become popular among athletes. [...] Mr. W. A. Eddy, who does all sorts of things with kites, except build one that will lite a man, has axamined the Journal's machine, and pronounces it a Marvel.[...] In the near future the Journal will extend invitations to representatives of the various athletic clubs to witness the trials."

https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn84031792/1896-05-03/ed-1/?sp=17&st=pdf