ATD re: Edwin Pynchon airship?

[pynchonoid]

John Roberts, who alerted http://pynchonoid.org of the
Edwin Pynchon airship, reports further:

[...] No question of authenticity: the patent is
housed at U of I of P. See following link.
http://www.lib.iup.edu/depts/speccol/ead/mg31.html[...]


...Thanks again!

--- pynchonoid <pynchonoid at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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