A Project for Flying: In Earnest at Last!

by Robert Hardley

EN·~57 minutes·3 chapters

Chapters

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A Project for Flying. - In Earnest at Last! - 1871 - Price, TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.

0:04

A Project for Flying. - In Earnest At Last.

9:56

Remarks on the Ellipsoidal Balloon, Propelled by the Archimedean Screw, Described as the New Aerial Machine, Now Exhibiting at the Royal Adelaide Gallery, Lowther Arcade, Strand. - Remarks, &c.

47:32

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Distributed Proofreaders

Release date

2004-02-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11244

Subjects

Navigation (Aeronautics) -- Early works to 1900 TL

About the author

Robert Hardley

An early aviation dreamer, this little-known writer explored how humans might finally steer and propel flight through the air. His work captures the restless, experimental spirit of the nineteenth century, when powered flight was still a bold idea rather than a reality.

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