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... wing and taught him the mysteries of railway telegraphy . The boy of sixteen held positions at small stations near home for a few months and then began a pe- riod of five years of apparently purposeless wander- ing as a tramp ...
... wing and taught him the mysteries of railway telegraphy . The boy of sixteen held positions at small stations near home for a few months and then began a pe- riod of five years of apparently purposeless wander- ing as a tramp ...
Page 225
... wing did not , of course , begin with the invention of the balloon . Perhaps the dream of flying man came first to some primi- tive poet of the Stone Age , as he watched , fearfully , the gyrations of the winged creatures of the air ...
... wing did not , of course , begin with the invention of the balloon . Perhaps the dream of flying man came first to some primi- tive poet of the Stone Age , as he watched , fearfully , the gyrations of the winged creatures of the air ...
Page 226
... wings and flew from the realm of their foes ; and the tale of Simon , the magician , who pestered the early Christian Church by exhibitions of flight into the air amid smoke and flame in mockery of the ascension . But do the many tales ...
... wings and flew from the realm of their foes ; and the tale of Simon , the magician , who pestered the early Christian Church by exhibitions of flight into the air amid smoke and flame in mockery of the ascension . But do the many tales ...
Page 227
... wings , " were making pin- ions of various fabrics and trying them upon the wind . Four years after Lana suggested his airship with balls and oars , Besnier , a French locksmith , made a flying machine of four collapsible planes like ...
... wings , " were making pin- ions of various fabrics and trying them upon the wind . Four years after Lana suggested his airship with balls and oars , Besnier , a French locksmith , made a flying machine of four collapsible planes like ...
Page 228
... wings ; but , though some of them might glide earthward , none could rise upon the wind . While the principle by which the balloon , father of the dirigible , soars and floats could be deduced by men of natural powers of observation and ...
... wings ; but , though some of them might glide earthward , none could rise upon the wind . While the principle by which the balloon , father of the dirigible , soars and floats could be deduced by men of natural powers of observation and ...
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afterwards Albany American balloon became began Benjamin Franklin better boat Boston Boulton and Watt brothers built Canal CHAPTER Charles Goodyear chine Clermont cloth colonies Colt Congress cotton gin Curtiss discovery Dwight Goddard dynamo early Edison electricity Eli Whitney England experiments factory farm father flying Haven Henry Howe's hundred idea improved industry invention inventor James Watt John Stevens labor Langley later light Livingston locomotive London Lowell machinery manufacture mechanical ment miles Miller mills Morse motor newspapers Oliver Evans partners Patent Act Pennsylvania Philadelphia ploughs practical principle printing produced profits railway reaper Robert Fulton rubber Samuel Samuel Colt SAMUEL F. B. MORSE says sewing machine sold soon South spinning steam engine steamboat story success telegraph thousand dollars tion took turn United Washington Whitney's wings wire Wright York young