About This Book
The author recounts aeronautical experiments and balloon ascents, describing practical plans to achieve controlled, heavier-than-air flight using propellers and steam engines. He combines technical reasoning about lift, propulsion, and engine endurance with reports of organized trials and the formation of a society to promote aerial locomotion. The text advocates gradual, measured experimentation, surveys competing proposals and skepticism, and considers possible applications and social consequences of human flight, including exploration and rescue as well as military uses, while emphasizing perseverance, careful measurement, and the need to convert ideas into workable machines.
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