Travels in space; a history of aerial navigation (1902)
Valentine, E Seton, Tomlinson, F. L. · New York, Frederick A. Stokes company · leaf 326
A HISTORY OF AERIAL NAVIGATION. 307 failure in practical experiment has been due to this lack of equilibrium. According to Professor G. H. Bryan, F.R.S., "everyone of the conditions for suc- cessful flight have been fairly satisfactorily dealt with by various experimenters ; and it only remains to… … THE SANTOS-DUMOKT NO. 2. With the opening of the new century many projects for flying machines were newly set afloat. There was a flying machine of an Austrian engineer named Kress, and the so-called " auto-aviator," due to M. Firman Boussan. This latter was surmounted by a vertical oblong balloon,…
Aeronautics -- History
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