. Animal locomotion, or Walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics. Animal locomotion; Aeronautics. AERONAUTICS. 217 model is remarkable as being probably the first which actuated by steam has flown to a considerable distance.^ The French have espoused the aerial screw with great enthusiasm, and withiii the last ten years (1863) MM. Nadar,^ Pontin. Fig. 112.—Flying Machine designed by M. de la Landelle. d'Amecourt, and de la Landelle have constructed clockwork models (prthopteres), which not only raise themselves into the air, but carry a certain amount of freight. These
. Animal locomotion, or Walking, swimming, and flying, with a dissertation on aëronautics. Animal locomotion; Aeronautics. AERONAUTICS. 217 model is remarkable as being probably the first which actuated by steam has flown to a considerable distance.^ The French have espoused the aerial screw with great enthusiasm, and withiii the last ten years (1863) MM. Nadar,^ Pontin. Fig. 112.—Flying Machine designed by M. de la Landelle. d'Amecourt, and de la Landelle have constructed clockwork models (prthopteres), which not only raise themselves into the air, but carry a certain amount of freight. These models are ^ Eeport on tlie First Exhibition of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain, held at the Crystal Palace, London, in June 1868, p. 10. 2 Mons. Nadar, in a paper written in 1863, enters very fully into the sub- ject of artificial flight, as performed by the aid of the screw. Liberal extracts are given from Nadar's paper in Astra Castra, by Captain Hatton Turner. London, 1865, p. 340. To Turner's handsome volume the reader is referred for much curious and interestmg information on tlie subject of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pettigrew, James Bell, 1834-1908. New York, D. Appleton & company
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