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Unlocking The Sky: Glenn Hammond Curtiss and the Race to Invent the Airplane - Page 9
by Seth Shulman - 2009 - 292 pages
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Nature, Volume 108

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1921 - 664 pages
...work which seemed specially mine—the demonstrationof the practicability of mechanical flight -—and for the next stage, which is the commercial and practical...it is probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed, would be supine if it does not realise that a new possibility has come to it, and...
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Travels In Space

E Seton Valentine/F L Tomlinson - 1902 - 356 pages
...which seemed to be specially mine—the demonstration of the practicability of mechanical flight; and for the next stage, which is the commercial and practical...it is probable that the world may look to others. The world indeed will be supine if it does not realise that a new possibility has come to it, and that...
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Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Volume 8

Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.) - Science - 1906 - 576 pages
...which seemed to be specially mine — the demonstration of the practicability of mechanical flight; and for the next stage, which is the commercial and practical...it is probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed, will be supine if it does not realize that a new possibility has come to it, and...
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... Smithsonian Exploration in Alaska in 1904: In Search of Mammoth and ...

Alfred Geddes Maddren - Geology, Stratigraphic - 1907 - 576 pages
...which seemed to be specially mine—the demonstration of the practicability of mechanical flight ; for the next stage, which is the commercial and practical...it is probable that the world may look to others." It must not be supposed that Langley, even during this period, dropped his astrophysical work. He steadily...
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The Conquest of the Air: Or, The Advent of Aerial Navigation

Abbott Lawrence Rotch - Aerodynamics - 1909 - 220 pages
...which seemed to be especially mine—the demonstration of the practicability of mechanical flight, and for the next stage, which is the commercial and practical...it is probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed, will be supine if it does not realize that a new possibility has come to it, and...
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The Conquest of the Air: Or, The Advent of Aërial Navigation

Abbott Lawrence Rotch - Aeronautics - 1909 - 212 pages
...which seemed to be especially mine—the demonstration of the practicability of mechanical flight, and for the next stage, which is the commercial and practical...it is probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed, will be supine if it does not realize that a new possibility has come to it, and...
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The Conquest of the Air: Or, The Advent of Aërial Navigation

Abbott Lawrence Rotch - Aeronautics - 1909 - 216 pages
...which seemed to be especially mine—the demonstration of the practicability of mechanical flight, and for the next stage, which is the commercial and practical...it is probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed, will be supine if it does not realize that a new possibility has come to it, and...
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Science, Volume 31

John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1910 - 1012 pages
...which seemed to be specially mine—the demonstration of the practicability of mechanical flight—and for the next stage, which is the commercial and practical...it is probable that the world may look to others. He was right, and the others have appeared. The aerodrome has reached the commercial and practical...
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Nature, Volume 83

Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1910 - 624 pages
...be specially mine—the demonstration of the practicability of mechanical flight—and for the next which is the commercial and practical development...the idea, it is probable that the world may look to ethers." He was right, and the others have appeared. The aerodrome has reached the commercial and practical...
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Aërial Navigation: A Popular Treatise on the Growth of Air Craft and on ...

Albert Francis Zahm - Aeronautics - 1911 - 630 pages
...which seemed to be peculiarly mine—the demonstration of the practicability of mechanical flight—and for the next stage, which is the commercial and practical...it is probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed, will be supine if it does not realize that a new possibility has come to it, and...
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