| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1921 - 664 pages
...to be opened." The Wright brothers are equally clear in their acknowledgment of Langley's work :— "The knowledge that the head of the most prominent...America believed in the possibility of human flight was one of the influences which led us to undertake the preliminary investigations that preceded our... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1910 - 650 pages
...this art. The Wright Brothers, too, have laid their tribute at his feet. "The knowledge," they say, "that the head of the most prominent scientific institution...America believed in the possibility of human flight was one of the influences that led us to undertake the preliminary investigations that preceded our... | |
| Alfred Geddes Maddren - Geology, Stratigraphic - 1907 - 576 pages
...investigation theretofore despised and left to "cranks." The brothers Wright, in a private letter, say: "The knowledge that the head of the most prominent...America believed in the possibility of human flight was one of the influences that led us to undertake the preliminary investigation that preceded our... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1910 - 624 pages
...this art. The Wright Brothers, too, have laid their tribute at his feet. " The knowledge," they say, " that the head of the most prominent scientific institution...America believed in the possibility of human flight was one of the influences that led us to undertake the preliminary investigations that preceded our... | |
| John Michels (Journalist) - Science - 1910 - 1012 pages
...the development of this art. The Wright Brothers too have laid their tribute at his feet. They say: The knowledge that the head of the most prominent scientific institution of America believed in the possibilty of human flight was one of the influences that led us to undertake the preliminary investigations... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1911 - 846 pages
...confidence in the successful solution of the problem of aerial navigation, the Wright brothers said: The knowledge that the head of the most prominent...America believed in the possibility of human flight was one of the influences that led us to undertake the preliminary investigations that preceded our... | |
| Sir Richard Gregory - Discoveries in science - 1916 - 378 pages
...that their confidence in the practical solution of the problem was derived from Langley and his work. The knowledge that the head of the most prominent...America believed in the possibility of human flight •was one of the influences that led us to undertake the preliminary investigations that preceded... | |
| Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann - Common fallacies - 1924 - 1006 pages
...confidence in the practical solution of the problem was derived from Langley and his work. They said:— ' The knowledge that the head of the most prominent...America believed in the possibility of human flight was one of the influences that led us to undertake the preliminary investigations that preceded our... | |
| Adolphus Washington Greely - Arctic regions - 1927 - 414 pages
...man was a potent agent in solving the problem. The Wright brother, who first flew, wrote of Langley: "The knowledge that the head of the most prominent...America believed in the possibility of human flight was one of the influences that led us to undertake the preliminary investigations that preceded our... | |
| 1916 - 880 pages
...that their confidence in the practical solution of the problem was derived from Langley and his work. "The knowledge that the head of the most prominent...America believed in the possibility of human flight was one of the influences that led us to undertake the preliminary investigations that preceded our... | |
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