Stories of inventors and discoverers in science and the useful arts. A book for old and young (1860)
Timbs, John, 1801-1875 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 99
d to theFrench Academy a pair of artificial arms, the inventionof M. Van Petersen, with one of which a mutilated soldierraised a full glass to his mouth, and drank its contentswithout spilling a drop of the liquor; he also picked upa pin, a sheet of paper, etc. Each arm and hand, withits… … NAVIGATION OF THE AIR: ADVENTURESWITH THE BALLOON. The idea of constructing a machine which should en-able us to rise into, and sail through the air (hence theterm aeronaut)^ would seem to have occupied the humanmind even in ancient times; but it was never realizeduntil the beginning of the…
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