Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 245
Thetwo brothers, who lived in the city of Dayton,Ohio, became convinced that they could construct Copyright, I9u8, by Ul STEERAB1.E ) AIR-SHIP. had made an aerial voyage lasting over an hour,and at an elevation at times of 250 feet above theearth. In September, 1908, Orville Wright per-formed this… … STEERING AN AIR-SHIP UPWARD BY SHIFTING THE MAN S WEIGHT ALONG THE CAR FRAME. in length. Its weight without passengers is 850pounds, including a gasolene motor having thepower of forty horses, which has driven itthrough the air at the rate of thirty-nine miles anhour—the speed of a fast railway…
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