Airships past and present, together with chapters on the use of balloons in connection with meteorology, photography and the carrier pigeon (1908)
Hildebrandt, A. (Alfred), b. 1870, Story, W. H. tr · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 120
s it is safe to affirm that it is possible todesign aeroplanes of great weight. During the Exhibition in Paris in 1900, a peculiar form offlying machine was to be seen, which looked like an enormousbat. A Frenchman, named Ader, had built it, wTith the assist-ance of the Minister of War. The sails… … Fig. 53.—Aders flying machine. to lift itself off the ground. It soon toppled over, and was muchinjured in consequence. An engineer, named William Kress,living at Vienna, also distinguished himself by making a flying-machine. He had been interested for many years in the sport-ing features of the…
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