The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 155
forty horses, whichdrove it through the air at the rate of thirty-ninemiles an hour—the speed of a fast railway train. Besides the box-kite there is the old-fashioneddesign still used by the boys fond of kite-flying.This is the kind where two sticks are fastenedin the form of a letter X and a… … BALDWINS DIRIGIBLE (OR STEERABLE Copyright, 1908, by Underwood & Underwood, N. Y.AIR-SHIP. trials, however, led them to give up the idea offlying like a bird without some other force thanair-pressure, so they designed several little en-gines for their aeroplanes, and with the aid ofone of these…
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