The aerial age : a thousand miles by airship over the Atlantic Ocean; airship voyages over the Polar Sea, the past, the present and the future of aerial navigation (1911)
Wellman, Walter, 1858- · New York : A.R. Keller · leaf 270
l, silk,rubber, gasoline, engines, pro\dsions, hydrogen,a thousand things welded together in a modernlighter-than-air aerial craft. Whether this frail combination of art, artifice,and science was to prove a true and serviceableship of the air, or a grim Frankenstein, we didnot know. That is… … ACROSS THE ATLANTIC 217 Mould constitute the realization of a splendiddream. That was what made it worth while. It isalways worth while to strive, to venture, to work,to dare—and leave the rest to the gods—in aneffort to realize mans dreams of conquest of theelements; to do something—^be it much or…
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