Aërial Navigation: A Popular Treatise on the Growth of Air Craft and on Aëronautical MeteorologyD. Appleton, 1911 - Broj stranica: 494 |
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Stranica 427 - Conversation produces on this subject, some suppose Flying to be now invented, and that since Men may be supported in the Air, nothing is wanted but some light handy instrument to give and direct Motion.
Stranica 5 - When now the boy, whose childish thoughts aspire To loftier aims, and make him ramble higher; Grown wild and wanton, more embolden'd flies Far from his guide, and soars among the skies: The softening wax, that felt a nearer sun, Dissolved apace, and soon began to run: The youth in vain his melting pinions shakes; His feathers gone, no longer air he takes.
Stranica 430 - It does not seem to me a good reason to decline prosecuting a new experiment which apparently increases the power of man over matter, till we can see to what use that power may be applied.
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Stranica 8 - His lineaments divine: the pair that clad Each shoulder broad came mantling o'er his breast With regal ornament; the middle pair Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold And colours dipt in heaven; the third his feet Shadowed from either heel with feathered mail, Sky - tinctured grain. Like Maia's son he stood, And shook his plumes, that heavenly fragrance filled The circuit wide.
Stranica 429 - Works, &c., conveying Intelligence into, or out of a besieged Town, giving Signals to distant Places, or the like. The other Method of filling a Balloon with permanently elastic inflammable Air, and then closing it is a tedious Operation, and very expensive; Yet we are to have one of that kind sent up in a few Days. It is a Globe of 26 feet diameter.
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