The "Albatross" might be called a clipper with thirty-seven masts.

But these masts instead of sails bore each two horizontal screws, not very large in spread or diameter, but driven at prodigious speed.

Each of these axes had its own movement independent of the rest, and each alternate one spun round in a different direction from the others, so as to avoid any tendency to gyration.

Hence the screws as they rose on the vertical column of air retained their equilibrium by their horizontal resistance.
Consequently the apparatus was furnished with seventy-four suspensory screws, whose three branches were connected by a metallic circle which economized their motive force.

In front and behind, mounted on horizontal axes, were two propelling screws, each with four arms.
These screws were of much larger diameter than the suspensory ones, but could be worked at quite their speed.