ATD re: Edwin Pynchon airship?

[pynchonoid]

This came in over the transom -- happy to credit the
person who let me know if that's OK? -- don't know if
it's authentic or not, I've asked the person who sent
it for more info, Google searches turned up a few
references: 

http://www.aerofiles.com/_pl.html
[...] Pynchon
Edwin Pynchon, no location.

  Pynchon (National Archives)

Albatross 1893 = Yes, that date is correct, and this
patented airborne hotel — the 747 of a century ago —
is included in Aerofiles as an interesting example of
the creative approach to manned flight taken by one of
the early, albeit obscure, visionaries. Data unknown,
but note the suitcase rollers for ground
movement.[...] 

http://www.lib.iup.edu/depts/speccol/ead/mg31.html
[...] Edwin Pynchon: Air Ship November 14, 1893[...]

 http://glennhcurtiss.com/id50.htm
[...] 
    In 1993 the Library of Congress published its
"FLIGHT BEFORE WRIGHT" calendar, Susan Sharp, editor:
"
History also shows that, alas, pivotal
accomplishments are not always immediately recognized
or appreciated. For the Wright brothers, it took more
than four years - from late 1903 to early 1908 - for
the world to become fully aware that they had achieved
sustained mechanical flight. Thus Flight before Wright
in a practical sense encompasses the continuing
experimentation that took place through the years
leading up to 1908
" with an interesting assemblage of
photographs and drawings:
     January: "R. J. Spaulding's Flying Machine,
Patented March 5, 1889;" February: "Israel Ludlow's
`New Aeroplane,' July 15, 1905;" March: "Gustave
Whitehead's Triplane, September 19, 1903;" April:
"Henri Giffard Balloon Ascension, 1878;" May: "Otto
Lilienthal (1848-1896) In His Plane No. 14, 1895;"
June: "Wright Brothers' Glider, Wrecked by wind,
1900;" July: "G. Curtis Gillespie's Aeroplane, June
24, 1905;" August: "Frederick R. Merritt's Airship,
Patented December 6, 1898," and "Edwin Pynchon's
`Albatross,' Patented November 14, 1893;" [...] 

Also this one, from The Laryngoscope (founded 1894)
called "On the Origin of Tonsillectomy and the
Dissection Method"; the Abstract mentions an "attempt
to remove the entire tonsil intact was described by
Edwin Pynchon in 1890 with the use of galvanocautery."

<http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-462X(197510)21%3A3%3C278%3ATQFP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-9>
"Admirers of Dr. Schoenmaker's nose job in V. may not
be sur- prised to learn of a Dr. Edwin Pynchon
(1856-1914), who invented numerous surgical
instruments ..."




-Doug

[...] You might like to take a gander at the fine
airship patented by one Mr. Edwin Pynchon way back in
1893. There's a picture of it at
<http://aerofiles.com/pynchon.jpg>

Here's a description: The Pynchon, designed by Edwin
Pynchon. National Archives)

Albatross 1893 = Yes, that date is correct, and this
patented airborne hotel — the 747 of a century ago —
is included in Aerofiles as an interesting example of
the creative approach to manned flight taken by one of
the early, albeit obscure, visionaries. Data unknown,
but note the suitcase rollers for ground movement.




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