A Project for Flying

By Hardley, Robert

Book Id: WPLBN0000629137
Format Type: PDF eBook
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	A Project for Flying
Author:	Hardley, Robert
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: SIR?You rightly appreciate the interest with which the popular mind regards all efforts in the direction of navigating the air. One man of my acquaintance was deeply interested to know the results of the California Experiment, because he alone, as he believed, had questioned Nature and learned from her the great secret of aerial navigation. To?day?s Tribune brings us the full account of the machine, its performance and modus operandi; and without the authority of my friend, I can pronounce at once that the thing is simply ridiculous. It is the same old useless effort, with the same impossible agents. But to?day, within twenty miles of Trinity steeple, lives the man who can give to the world the secret of navigating the air, in calm or in storm, with the wind or against it; skimming the earth, or in the highest currents, just as he wills, with all the ease, and all the swiftness, and all the exactitude of a bird. My friend is only waiting for an opportunity to perfect his plan, when he will make it known.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: A Project for Flying, 1 -- Robert Hardley, 1