Wonderful balloon ascents; or, The conquest of the skies. From the Fr1870 |
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Σελίδα 217 - ... your encouragement for the opportunity of demonstrating the availability of the science of aeronautics in the military service of the country.
Σελίδα 207 - In that position my eyes were directed towards Mr. Coxwell in the ring. When I shook my body I seemed to have full power over the muscles of the back, and considerable power over those of the neck, but none over my limbs. As in the case of the arms, all muscular power was lost in an instant from my back and neck, I dimly saw Mr.
Σελίδα 208 - ... time we were between six and seven miles high — is such that no sound reaches the ear.
Σελίδα 12 - We see that a great ship swims as well as a small cork, and an eagle flies in the air as well as a little gnat. This engine may be contrived from the same principles by which Archytas made a wooden dove, and Region) ontanus a wooden eagle. I conceive it were no difficult matter (if a man had leisure) to show more particularly the means of composing it.
Σελίδα 12 - I do seriously, and upon good grounds, affirm it possible to make a flying chariot, in which a man may sit, and give such a motion unto it, as shall convey him through the air. And this perhaps might be made large enough to carry divers men at the same time, together with food for their viaticum, and commodities for traffic.