Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 462
e best stretched by wires upon a framework, the larg-est being fifty by forty feet, and capable aloneof lifting most of the weight. It was meantalso to make the machine fall slowly, for itwould act as a parachute in falling. At thesides were smaller planes, and in front and be-hind were planes… … AN IMAGINARY AIR-SHIP OF THE BALLOON TYPE. material for making the aeroplanes — his birds-wings. The tests were made on an ingeniouslittle machine that showed how much eachpiece of stuff would lift, and how hard it triedto go with the current of air blown against it. He found that an aeroplane made…
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