The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
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that they mightresume their deliberations but might never see Lunardi again. Most of us lately saw in one of thecircuses a woman sitting on a horse which wasstanding on a platform suspended from an imita-tion balloon, which was then drawn to the top ofthe tent. This act, thrilling as it was, can… … THE IDEA OF FRANCIS LANA, 1670. He proposed constructing a number of huge copper balls, exhaustingthe air from them to make them light, and attaching a car to them.Of course his idea was impractical. ing or gliding type of flying-machine. At firstthese were sailed like a kite, with the string…
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