The illustration herewith shows a novel pleasure resort attraction devised by two New York inventors. Altho, at a first glance, it may seem impracticable to construct such a daring amusement contrivance as this, a little reflection will show that it is not so impossible at all.
In the circus we are used to seeing a person "loop-the-loop" or turn a somersault in mid-air while in an automobile, the vehicle and its passengers landing right side up on a properly inclined platform, down which it glides to earth. Our artillery experts can compute with extreme accuracy the trajectory of various projectiles, both large and small, and thus it should be quite possible, with the aid of modern mechanical engineering technique, to build one of these aerial passenger rocket amusements successfully. The gun out of which is the shell or rocket, with its human cargo is shot, may be operated by compressed air, by powder, or it may be an electromagnetic gun.
After the shell has sped thru the air, over the course indicated by the dotted lines, ti lands on a large cushion of water also, and upon striking the lagoon, it is guided back to the starting point by a link-belt as here illustrated. Electric cars of special type, seen at the left of the picture, carry the "rockets" back to the station, thence around to the gun breech, where a hydraulic plunger loads the carrier into the gun.
