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The conquest of the air; the romance of aerial navigation (1902)

Alexander, John · New York, A. Wessels company · leaf 149

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ar I shall build one that willtake me to Brazil. There is nothing but cheeryoptimism about M. Severo. It was also announced in September, 1901, thatthe plan of another steerable balloon had been putforward by M. Jean Vannylen, a Belgian draftsman,which during a tempest would conquer wind currentsin… … AN AUSTRIAN FAILURE. I47 Sad was the fate of a machine invented by anAustrian rival to the young RraziHan. Herr WilhehnKress is an old man and poor, who constructed aflying-machine of the heavier than air description.According to a Vienna correspondent, \\ ho examinedhis machine, it looked like a…

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