the "flying man," while giving an exhibi- tion at London, in July, 1874, fell suddenly to earth where his corpse was picked up with the stilled wings attached. i In 1875 J. Cro'ce-Spinelli and Spivel, two French savants, while attempting to break the record for alti- tude in their balloon "Zenith"… … venturous Swedes, started in hia balloon from Spitz-' To wing, wreck of Langley u aerodrome" back to houseboat, 1901k Lieut Thomas E. Selffidge. bergen in search of the North Pole; and no trace of them has since been found. ' In 1896 the hope of science was renewed by Langley, our great astronomer…
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