The romance of aeronautics, an interesting account of the growth & achievements of all kinds of aerial craft (1912)
Turner, Charles Cyril, 1870- · London, Seeley, Service & co., limited · leaf 30
CURIOUS EARLY FALLACIES top of it as they can on the top of the sea. He appears to have originated the hollow-globe theory. He wrote : " The machine … Fig. 2. — Francesco Lana's Airship. must be a large hollow globe of copper or other suitable metal wrought extremely thin so as to have it as light as possible, and 24
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