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WILLIAM SAMUEL HENSON (1812-1888)
Description, Specification, and Drawings, of Mr Henson's Locomotive Apparatus for the Conveyance of Passengers, &c., Through the Air. London: Waterlow & Sons by the authority of the Patentees. [c.1843]. 2° (445 x 300mm). 3pp. lithographic text. 7 folding lithographic plates, 4 hand coloured. (Very occasional light spotting). Original printed fawn wrappers, titled on upper wrapper (wrappers torn at backstrip, a few clean tears, lightly dust stained). Provenance: P. Forster (ownership inscription on margin of first page 'P. Forster. Brought me from England by Mr Broughton May 1843.')
A VERY RARE WORK DESCRIBING ONE OF THE EARLIEST ATTEMPTS TO PRODUCE A COMMERCIAL FLYING MACHINE POWERED BY STEAM. The story of these early flying pioneers began in Chard, Somerset in the early 1840s. Henson, a successful industrialist, was influenced by George Cayley's early writings on flight, and collaborated with the engineer John Stringfellow (1799-1883) to devise an aeronautical apparatus, creating a design based on observations of birds -- a fixed wing, propeller-driven airplane, for which they applied for a patent on 29 September 1842. They then went on to form the Aerial Transit Company and sought subscriptions for an airship. Their project, 'The Ariel', was colossal, a craft of 150-feet wing span with a streamlined cabin and twin six-bladed propellers, intended to be launched down a ramp. Unfortunately the project floundered and Henson went off to America in 1847. Stringfellow continued his researches into flight and made a 10-foot wing-span craft which flew some 22 feet in a lace mill in 1848. Henson died in Newark, New Jersey in 1888. THE DESCRIPTION IS VERY RARE: no copy is recorded by ABPC since 1975; only 1 copy can be traced in the UK, and none in: COPAC (including the British Library and the Imperial College and Science Museum Libraries); OCLC; KVK.
Description, Specification, and Drawings, of Mr Henson's Locomotive Apparatus for the Conveyance of Passengers, &c., Through the Air. London: Waterlow & Sons by the authority of the Patentees. [c.1843]. 2° (445 x 300mm). 3pp. lithographic text. 7 folding lithographic plates, 4 hand coloured. (Very occasional light spotting). Original printed fawn wrappers, titled on upper wrapper (wrappers torn at backstrip, a few clean tears, lightly dust stained). Provenance: P. Forster (ownership inscription on margin of first page 'P. Forster. Brought me from England by Mr Broughton May 1843.')
A VERY RARE WORK DESCRIBING ONE OF THE EARLIEST ATTEMPTS TO PRODUCE A COMMERCIAL FLYING MACHINE POWERED BY STEAM. The story of these early flying pioneers began in Chard, Somerset in the early 1840s. Henson, a successful industrialist, was influenced by George Cayley's early writings on flight, and collaborated with the engineer John Stringfellow (1799-1883) to devise an aeronautical apparatus, creating a design based on observations of birds -- a fixed wing, propeller-driven airplane, for which they applied for a patent on 29 September 1842. They then went on to form the Aerial Transit Company and sought subscriptions for an airship. Their project, 'The Ariel', was colossal, a craft of 150-feet wing span with a streamlined cabin and twin six-bladed propellers, intended to be launched down a ramp. Unfortunately the project floundered and Henson went off to America in 1847. Stringfellow continued his researches into flight and made a 10-foot wing-span craft which flew some 22 feet in a lace mill in 1848. Henson died in Newark, New Jersey in 1888. THE DESCRIPTION IS VERY RARE: no copy is recorded by ABPC since 1975; only 1 copy can be traced in the UK, and none in: COPAC (including the British Library and the Imperial College and Science Museum Libraries); OCLC; KVK.
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