Travels in space; a history of aerial navigation (1902)
Valentine, E. Seton, Tomlinson, F. L. · London Hurst and Blackett · leaf 326
lighting is essential. No one can doubt that the problem of maintainingequipoise is the most important and difficult one thebudding aerial navigator has to face. Almost every A HISTORY OF AERIAL NAVIGATION. 307 failure in practical experiment has been due to thislack of equilibrium. According to… … XUE SAMOS-UUMuSX ^0. 2. With the opening of the new century manyprojects for flying machines were newly set afloat.There was a flying machine of an Austrian engineernamed Kress, and the so-called auto-aviator, dueto M, Firman Boussan. This latter was surmountedby a vertical oblong balloon, thus…
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