The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 177
ne of his bold feats of soaring,Lilienthal lost control of his apparatus and waskilled—a martyr to the science of flying, and ahelper toward success. Some Americans also during this period wereat work with wings, among them A. M. Herringof New York, who was said by a paper to beexperimenting with… … 1 OTTO LILIENTHAL ABOUT TO TAKE FLIGHT IN HIS GLIDER. different lines, in various parts of the world, butnone yet more successful. Lawrence Hargraveof New South Wales made a great number ofsimple and successful models—one being drivenby compressed air, and flying over 300 feet. Henext gave his…
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