The idea of Santos=Dumont
to share knowledge, without any compromise with patent laws, focusing only the
sole purpose of conquering the flight, certainly caused the anticipation of discovering
of the aircraft to the beginning of the 20th century. But was also the great
cause of the misinterpretation of Americans conferring to the Wright brothers' the
status of inventors of the airplane.
Santos=Dumont
anticipated the 'wiki' philosophy for over 100 years, in which all the information
about an invention, in a specific development process, are placed at the
disposal of everybody, in order to multiply the chances of advancement -
opening opportunities to a greater number of people involved in the issue, aiming
the final creation of such invention (the term 'wiki' to designate this phenomenon
appears today in the Wikipedia site and also in the book "Wikinomics"
by Anthony D. Williams and Don Tapscott ) - know more about Santos=Dumont father of wiki philosophy
What is known today as
"philosophy of post-scarcity" was also created by Santos=Dumont ( economic/political science which Luiz Pagano, the writer of this blog, has updated and modified to a doctrine and onomics that is starting to getting on called PROSPENOMICS - learn more) - but
today the term 'post-scarcity' is still taken more like science fiction, than a
science.
The process of
invention/creation through the method of 'post-scarcity' implies in using full
mental devotion, seeking to resolve the issues, concerning the stages of
creation, taking into consideration that "we can find in nature any and
all recourse in order to resolve any and all issue".
The 'post-scarcity' is
the method in which the profound observation of nature, combined with the most
perfect use of the creative mind, allows to test all possibilities to the
exhaustion, in order to obtain the invention of something in its best form.
- scarcity ends at the time when realize the unlimited nature of resources that we consider, in ignorance, as scarce. -
- scarcity ends at the time when realize the unlimited nature of resources that we consider, in ignorance, as scarce. -
As the name says, the
method of 'post-scarcity' also implies in measuring well the use these
resources to avoid waste and misuse.
See the following
article in which Santos=Dumont presents the use of "aeroplanes " as
part of the solution for the development of a dirigible designed to carry
passengers, such as an air bus, and draw your own conclusions.
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| Dirigible Santos=Dumont n.10 - "The Bus" with its "aeroplanes" |
Evening Journal
Artist, Coffin, Interviews Inventor and Explains His Ideas - July 30, 1902
By G. A Coffin.
Nerve, intellectual
and physical.
That is the impression
you receive in talking with Santos-Dumont, the Brazilian aeronaut. He is a
fatalist. Generally speaking, navigators of the air will avail themselves of
every safeguard in their dangerous undertakings, but M. Santos trusts entirely
to his airship, discarding the parachute and merely says, with expensive shrug,
when the possibility of an accident during his flight is broached:
“Well then, it is all
over.”
In discussing aerial
navigation, M. Santos is rather cuscreative, He admits that the only way to
carry passengers is an airship is by enormously increasing the size of the
balloon and that of course makes it more unwieldy in unfavorable weather.
The limit of buoyancy
or lifting power has been practically reached by using hydrogen gas for
inflations.
Theoretically it might
be possible to obtain a gas that would give an increased lifting power. The
increased power would be small and the cost large. But the saving would be so
doubtful and the results so small that it is useless to figure on it.
So like everyone else
who has studied the subject. M. Santos will find that he must delve in other
direction seeking assistance from some other source.
His Latest Experiment
He informed me that
his balloon “dips” during flights. It rocks as though it were riding a swell of
the ocean. In order to partially rectify this tendency the young aeronaut has
planed two partitions in his balloon, which divide the gasbag into three
compartments. The surfaces of the partitions are not varnished, are holed and
porous, permitting the gas to percolate or pass slowly through, thus avoiding
the evils of gas displacement.
To make his airship
absolutely steady M. Santos is about to add a number of aeroplanes to the
framework. They are simple frames of some light but strong material. Bamboo or
aluminum, on which, light silk is stretched. The adjustment of these at the
will of the operator will prove efficacious in giving greater control of the
airship.
This departure by
Santos-Dumont would seem to indicate no very radical change in construction but
in reality it is a noteworthy alteration of his design.
The young Brazilian,
to some, may seem a very narrow man, but to me his ability to see things one
side only appears as the result of that supreme quality which every successful
man possesses, namely, concentration.
Takes One Thing at a
Time.
He looks at things
from one point of view merely as a microscope searches for one small part of an
object. He has devoted himself to the balloon part of his airship and has
exhausted the subject and so turns to some other phase in the construction of
vehicles of aerial navigation. He finds his attention centered in aeroplanes
and for a time he will see nothing but these planes. He will learn all there is
to be learned and put the practical use his knowledge and then divert it to
some other phase and slowly but surely will arrive at practical results that
the whole world will appreciate.
I think that when he
fully realizes the lifting power of aeroplanes he will add great many of them
to his future airship, and discovering that they undoubtedly add greatly to the
lifting power he will eventually be able to construct a ship to carry a number
of passengers without increasing the size o the present balloon.
Another thing that
would greatly assist in his work of navigating the air is the possibility of
liquefying hydrogen. If this can be done on a commercial basis, M. Santos will
merely have to carry a few small receptacles containing liquid hydrogen, and be
releasing a small quantity at a time can keep the balloon filled. There are, of
course, difficulties in the way of even this, but they doubtless will be
overcome, as have others before them.
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| The 'family' inventions of Santos = Dumont - his own drawing, January 8, 1929 |
Logic of
the inventive process of Santos=Dumont
"The man is unable to fly" - that line that was constantly heard by
Santos=Dumont, but it did not discourage him. He knew that the flight was
plausible, all he had to do was to abstract the concept of impossibility. In
his mind there was no shortage of resources, quite the contrary, S=D tested a
huge range of real possibilities of flight.
These were
the steps taken by Santos=Dumont for his inventions, note that as nature does,
he did not jump from one invention to another. Every discovery was the result
of a process of reasoning (by a privileged mind) applied to practical
situations in a sequence of impeccable logic.
1 - He
determined that the invention of the airplane, the flight of heavier than air,
was possible, since the birds, insects and other animals’ flies;
2 - He began
his inventive process from technology in hand, undirigible balloons and steam
engines;
3 - He
questioned the use of oil engine and step-by-step invented the dirigibility of
balloons;
4 - His
invention evolved following a logical order of inventions to improve his
airship to the state of the art;
5 - He
started experimenting with heavier than air, studied the fluctuation of heavier
than air with the help of displacement and handling (n.11 and n.14), and in
tests in the water (n. 18 );
6 - Created
the flight of heavier than air (n. 14 Bis);
7 -
Improved the flight of heavier than air aircraft in several other airships (no.
15 and n.20);
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