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Animal locomotion, or Walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics (1874)

Pettigrew, James Bell, 1834-1908 · New York, D. Appleton & company · leaf 244

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mbustion of charcoal,nitre, and gypsum, as used in the original fire annihilator;the products of combustion mixing with water in the boiler,and forming gas charged steam, which was delivered at ahigh pressure from the extremities of the eight arms. This AERONAUTICS. 217 model is remarkable as being… … Fig. 112.—Flying Machine designed by M. de la Landelle. dAmecourt, and de la Landelle have constructed clockworkmodels (prthopteres), which not only raise themselves into theair, but carry a certain amount of freight. These models are ^ Eeport on tlie First Exhibition of the Aeronautical Society of…

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