The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 173
dy of the machine was a platform car onwheels. The car, forty feet long and eight feetwide, carried the two little engines. Above werethe aeroplanes of cloth, stretched by wires upona framework, the largest being fifty by forty feet,and capable alone of lifting most of the weight.It was meant also… … MAXIMS AEROPLANE OF 1893, AS IT WOULD APPEAR IN THE AIR. The machine ran along its own railroad, a tracka third of a mile long, and could be driven by thepush of its air-screws as fast as most locomo-tives. The inventor soon found that when the car ranat a high speed it tried to rise from the…
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