Bacon, Gertrude, 1874-1949 · New York, Dodd, Mead & company; [etc., etc.] · leaf 112
es through the atmosphere the less ten-dency will it have to fall to the ground. Aquick-flying bird like an albatross, therefore,flies with less exertion, and so could carry agreater weight, than a slow-moving bird like agoose. It must therefore be to the advantage THE FLYING MACHINE 113 of the… … The Maxim Airship. have now, and his results proved at the time aperfect revelation of what could be done inthis direction, and led to great advances beino-made. & Next came the designing of the greatmachine itself. It was an enormous apparatus,weighing over three tons, capable of carryingthree…
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