 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1911 - 846 pages
...air itself has become a highway, and dirigible balloons and flying machines are now realities. Ho\v- well the predictions of Langley have been fulfilled....opened, and who can foretell the consequences to man I One thing is certain: That the physical obstacles to travel have been overcome, and that there is... | |
 | Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D.C.) - 1907 - 570 pages
...commercial and practical development of the idea, it is probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed, will be supine if it does not realize...universal highway over-head is now soon to be opened." But the world was not satisfied with this position. It looked to Professor Langley himself to carry... | |
 | Albert Francis Zahm - 1911 - 630 pages
...commercial and practical development of the idea, it is probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed, will be supine if it does not realize...universal highway overhead is now soon to be opened." As shown in Plate XV, Langley's first successful steam flying machine is a tandem monoplane 1 with... | |
 | Sir Richard Gregory - 1916 - 382 pages
...probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed, will be supine if it does not realise that a new possibility has come to it, and that the...universal highway overhead is now soon to be opened. Prof. SP Langley. How completely Langley's belief in flight by aeroplanes has been justified is known... | |
 | Mary Rosetta Parkman - 1917 - 352 pages
...difficult task," he said, "with results which, it may be hoped, will be useful to others. The world must realize that a new possibility has come to it, and that the great universal highway overhead is soon to be opened." While the crowd was still laughing at the absurdity of man's attempting to fly,... | |
 | Abbott Lawrence Rotch - 1918 - 316 pages
...commercial and practical development of the idea, it is probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed, will be supine if it does not realize...universal highway overhead is now soon to be opened." After experimenting with models which are often unsuitable for reproduction on a large scale, four... | |
 | Mary Rosetta Parkman - 1921 - 470 pages
...before his death in 1906, "with results which, it may be hoped, will be useful to others. The world must realize that a new possibility has come to it, and that the great universal highway overhead is soon to be opened." While the crowd was still laughing at the absurdity of a learned man's attempting... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1926 - 630 pages
...commercial and practical development of the idea, it is probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed, will be supine if it does not realize...universal highway overhead is now soon to be opened. However, in 1898, influenced in part by a natural eagerness to see a man-carrying plane in flight,... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1926 - 604 pages
...commercial and practical development of the idea, it is probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed, will be supine if it does not realize...universal highway overhead is now soon to be opened. However, in 1898, influenced in part by a natural eagerness to see a man-carrying plane in flight,... | |
 | 2003 - 776 pages
...idea, it is probable that the world may look to others. The world, indeed, will be supine if it do not realize that a new possibility has come to it,...universal highway overhead is now soon to be opened. Document l-8(c), Alexander Graham Bell, "The Aerodromes in Flight," 1897. Through the courtesy of Dr.... | |
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I have brought to a close the portion of the work which seemed to be specially mine — the demonstration of the practicability of mechanical flight — and for the next stage, which is the commercial and practical development of the idea, it is probable... 
