Bacon, Gertrude, 1874-1949 · London ; New York ; Toronto ; Melbourne : Cassell and Company · leaf 64
to theground. His apparatus took the form of two huge wings,with a big, curving tail behind, and for his experimentshe had an artificial hill made from earth that was beingdug up for a canal in the suburbs of Berlin. From thishill he took his leaps, learning thereby many importantfacts—the best… … 4« HOW MEN FLY air and, falling fifty feet to the ground, broke his spine.His mantle fell on a young Englishman, Percy Pilcher,also an engineer, who continued the gliding experimentswith great success until he also fell with his machinefrom a height and was killed. Pilcher and Lilienthalwere true…
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