Ferris, Richard. [from old catalog] · New York, T. Nelson and sons · leaf 70
e inventor or the government to con-tinue the experiments. The report was that in everytrial the machines had been wrecked. The experiments of Lilienthal had excited an in- FLYING MACHINES. 69 terest in his ideas which his untimely death did notabate. Among others, a young English marine en-gineer,… … Plan of Chanutes movable-wing glider. zontally in the air for some distance. He then builtan engine which he purposed to install as motivepower, but before this was done he was killed by afall from his machine while in the air. Before the death of Lilienthal his efforts had at-tracted the attention…
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