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Scientific American, Vol. 79, No. 9 (1898) (1898)

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ying apparatus of movable at the shoulder only from front to rear, in ways and everywhere in the wing of all birds—in that Otto Lilienthal, which was much more dangerous, order to permit of modifying the center of gravity of of bats, in that of insects, and in the structure of every- since, in… … Leonardo da Vinci to those of Maxim, Langley, and which, in the air, replaces the flapping wing of the principle from which Nature never departs, and which, Richet ! How many disciples on both sides ! according to M. Ader, constitutes the basis of aerostation. bird, as in water it replaces the fin…

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