Travels in space; a history of aerial navigation (1902)
Valentine, E. Seton, Tomlinson, F. L. · London Hurst and Blackett · leaf 338
earth in a new aspect, and to sustain ourselves inan element hitherto the exclusive domain of birds andinsects. We have been enabled to ascend among thephenomena of the heavens, and to exchange conjecturefor instrumental facts, recorded at elevations exceedingthe highest mountains of the earth. It… … A HISTORY OF AERIAL NAVICxATIOX. 321 gested. In its present form it is useless for com-mercial enterprise, and so little adapts itself to ournecessities that it might drop into oblivion to-morrow,and we should miss nothing from the conveniencesof life. Whatever the shortcominQs of the machine,…
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