StNicholas [serial] . these were sailed like a kite, with the string fast-ened to an automobile, which was speeded sailing device rose into the air or not accord-ing to the success of the designer. When the factwas ascertained that these machines would ascendand carry a man, the towing automobile was aban-doned and the machine itself was equipped with ahigh-powered gasolene engine to run a line of experimenting resulted in the modernaeroplanes with which we are all familiar. BALLOONS MADE BY NATURE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS Mans progress in the invasion of the realm ofthe b
StNicholas [serial] . these were sailed like a kite, with the string fast-ened to an automobile, which was speeded sailing device rose into the air or not accord-ing to the success of the designer. When the factwas ascertained that these machines would ascendand carry a man, the towing automobile was aban-doned and the machine itself was equipped with ahigh-powered gasolene engine to run a line of experimenting resulted in the modernaeroplanes with which we are all familiar. BALLOONS MADE BY NATURE IN PLANTS AND ANIMALS Mans progress in the invasion of the realm ofthe birds is more than marvelous, but he is notalone in this competition. Compared with thehosts of tiny airships sent up by every field andmeadow, he is but a novice. Heavenward they go 1134 NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS [Oct., with every breeze that blows, from early spring,when the willow, the cotton-tree, and the dandelionsend forth their downy swarms, until the snowsof winter drape the landscape —catching, per-. A VANISHING TRAIL OF THE NATURAL MEADOW BALLOONISTS. Showing among them a human aeronaut hanging from his parachute. chance, the last fledglings of the common dande-lion. These tiny, inanimate balloonists were vet-erans in the art long ere man existed, and wellmay he study some of their devices. How like,indeed, is he, descending in his parachute, to someof these ballooning seeds! In our picture he isplaced among a drifting trail of these varioustiny aeronauts, which vanish in the airy how naturally he fits in and harmonizes withthe others, an atom among atoms, with merely adifferent form of pappus, or tuft of down, eachfreighted with its living tip. Any playful wind-gust down the country road sends thousands ofthese little wandering airships in tiny dusty eddies upward from the sunny fence this scurrying family of aerial voyagersthe members of the great composite and the chic-ory families, veritable children of the breeze,will usually
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