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Herr Lilienthal's Wonderful Machine Collapses When at an Altitude of Two Hundred Feet. (BY CABLE TO THE HERALD.) BRUSSELS, July 24, 1894.—Engineer Lilienthal, of Llchterfelde, recently constructed a flying machine, with which he has succeeded in reaching considerable heights. While prac-tising on Sunday last the wings of the machine collapsed at an altitude of two hundred feet, and he fell to the ground. His fall was broken somewhat, but he was badly injured.
SOME ACCOUNT OF THE DARING INVENTOR AND HIS EXTRAORDINARY APPARATUS.
Herr Otto Lilienthal, of Berlin, the "Flying Man," whose remarkable experiments in aeronautics were not long ago described at length in the HERALD, has for a long time been trying to invent a flying machine, and his efforts have been rewarded with an encouraging measure of success. He was born forty-six years ago in Anklam. near the Baltic coast of Pomerania, about sixty miles north of Stettin. A resi-dence so near the sea afforded him in early life many opportunities of prosecuting his favorite studies. In later years he migrated with his younger brother, Gustav, to Berlin, where he established and now conducts a manufactory of small steam engines, the mechanical appliances of which furnish him with every facility for the construction of his flying apparatus. He resides, however, in the suburb of Llchterfelde, and his recent experiments have been constructed chiefly in the neighboring localities of Steglitz and the hills near Berlin.