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 477
onverts himself into a greatbird; he spreads his wings, sets in motion hismotor-muscles, rises from the earth, sets out de-termined to reach a given destination a long waysoff, flies straight toward it, reaches it, descends.This is aerial navigation; it is conquest of theair. It is one of mans most… … CONQUERING THE AIR 38.5 And yet the question is everywhere asked:Now that man has achieved aerial navigation, howmuch practical use is he going to be able to makeof it in the worlds work? No other question istOday more discussed throughout Christendom.No other rouses more curiosity or develops…
Aeronautics
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