scientists, philoso-phers, are men who stand a little in advance ofthe world and help pull the world after them.The merit of what they do is seldom appreciatedor recognized until the world has caught up.The inventor must, of necessity, work in newfields untrodden by his fellows; and both themanner… … It is easy enoughhas been done, to see how it was done, but ittook genius to foreknow the advent of aviationand in imagination to foresee the actual aero-plane soaring in the coming sky, and it tookcourage to face the ridicule of unbelief and thesneers of ignorance. Chanute forsaw it all. He knew…
Aeronautics
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