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" that the head of the most prominent scientific institution of America believed in the possibility of human flight. "
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
...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...
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Nature, Volume 83

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...
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... Smithsonian Exploration in Alaska in 1904: In Search of Mammoth and ...

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...
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Nature, Volume 83

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...
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Science, Volume 31

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...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

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...
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Discovery: Or, The Spirit and Service of Science

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...
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Popular Fallacies Explained and Corrected: (with Copious References to ...

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...
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Reminiscences of Adventure and Service: A Record of Sixty-five Years

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...
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The Living Age, Volume 289

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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