The airship of the Baptist Reverend Burrell Canon from Pittsburg, TX was named “Ezekiel” because Canon get the idea to build it while he read in the book of Ezekiel. The ship had large fabric-covered wings powered by an engine that turned four sets of paddles. It was built in a nearby machine shop and was reported as briefly airborne in 1902. En route to the St.Louis world’s fair in 1904, the airship was destroyed by a storm. In 1913 a second model crashed, and the Rev. Cannon gave up the project. A replica is currently housed in the Northeast Texas Rural Heritage Museum in Pittsburg, Texas.
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