The wonders of modern mechanism. A résumé of recent progress in mechanical, physical, and engineering science (1896)
Cochrane, Charles Henry, 1856- · Philadelphia J.B. Lippincott · leaf 138
birds.His wings were fifteen metres in area, and his method wasto take a run against the wind, from a roof-top situated ona hill, and jump into the air. In this manner he was ableto soar a distance of about eight hundred feet on a downgrade before reaching the ground. His experience was sounique… … LILIENTHALS SOARING APPARATUS. Lawrence Hargrave, of England, built this same year asingularly light machine designed to imitate the flight of abird. It was seven feet long, and consisted of a tube orbackbone on which were mounted a pair of wings, yet theweight was only fifty-nine ounces. The…
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