of steam and be constructed for but a fraction of the electricity, of rapid transportation for hu- cost. man beings and their products, and for This new machine consists of two cir- bringing all the world in instant commu- cular disks of ordinary window glass, 1414 nication, one part with another.… … a curved rod, supported at the middle of structed a practicable flying machine; nay, its length by one of the projecting ends of they have not yet so much as taken the the fixed spindle upon which the disks first step in that direction. rotate, the brass sector-shaped plates just grazing the tips…
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