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 131
the brothers Wrightfar outstrip everybody else, if the reports of their doings aretrue. The world was lately astonished at the news that theyhad formed a company in Paris, which was to buy their inventionfor the sum of £40,000, and place it at the disposal of theFrench War Office. The Wrights then… … Fig. 63.—Starting an aeroplane. and wTas to show a speed of 30 miles an hour. Wilbur andOrville Wright are natives of Dayton, Ohio, and having enjoyeda good technical education and started a successful bicyclefactory, they turned their attention to the problem of flight.They had the help of…
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