Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries (1914)
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, N. W. Henley Publishing · leaf 152
one for the driving propellers. The operator had good control in thetrials made at Coney Island, N. Y., but the ship was finally blown tosea and lost, 1889. 368. POWER FLYING MACHINE. Maxims type. The ap-pHcation of power to flying machines has been several times success- … fully tried. Professor Langleys aerodrome, which resembles an enor-mous bird of steel, was tried with much success in May, 1896. It roseeasily and soared in the air in large spiral curves of 100 yards diame-ter, reaching a height of about one hundred feet and moving abouthalf a mile. The steam then…
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