The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 175
money, time, andthe talent which has been em-ployed by the French ballooncorps in their fruitless efforts toconstruct a navigable balloonshould now be employed in theright direction, the whole ques-tion of aerial navigation would soon be so perfected that common sight. His book told nearly all the… … THE STARBOARD SIDE AFTER THE ACCIDENT. FLYING-MACHINES AND AIR-SHIPS 161 Among the most striking instances of flyingare the experiments made many years ago by aFrenchman named Le Bris. Le Bris once held up in the breeze a wing hehad taken from an albatross, and, he says, inspite of me it drew…
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