Charles M. Davis’s Flying Machine – 1906
The following newspaper article appeared in the Daily Capitol Journal, (Salem, Oregon), on February 6, 1906. Brighton is a neighborhood of Boston.
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Boston, Feb. 6 – Scientists and inventors in this city are highly interested in the announcement just made that Charles M. Davis of Brighton, has invented a flying machine which is constructed on entirely new and original principles and is said to promise remarkable results. The inventor says that his machine is neither a freak nor a fake and will surely do what he expects it to do. It has neither a gas tank nor a balloon attachment and not even wings, yet, it is said, that the model just completed ascended to any height without danger of a sudden drop. The inventor has designed the machine primarily for use on a battleship. The machine will move equally well in the air and in the water and can be easily carried like a life boat. Three aluminum propellers furnish the motive power in either water or air. Mr. Davis is trying to get some eastern capitalists interested in his invention and will soon start to build a model on a larger scale.