How the world travels . ^ day, can already travel at an almostincredible speed and with a security that only alittle while ago would have been considered quite THE TRAVEL OF TO-MORROW 121. OVERHEAD TROLLEY. 122 HOW THE WORLD TRAVELS impossible. Nowadays air travel is not only apossibility but an accomplished fact, and it is hardto realise that it has come about during the lasttwenty years, and that before then practical flyingmachines were unknown. From very early times, however, inventors andscientists have dreamed and experimented, andno less than seven hundred years ago, RogerBacon, one of
How the world travels . ^ day, can already travel at an almostincredible speed and with a security that only alittle while ago would have been considered quite THE TRAVEL OF TO-MORROW 121. OVERHEAD TROLLEY. 122 HOW THE WORLD TRAVELS impossible. Nowadays air travel is not only apossibility but an accomplished fact, and it is hardto realise that it has come about during the lasttwenty years, and that before then practical flyingmachines were unknown. From very early times, however, inventors andscientists have dreamed and experimented, andno less than seven hundred years ago, RogerBacon, one of the most learned men of his day,seems to have looked down through the centuriesand to have actually seen the aeroplanes withwhich we are now familiar. There may be made a flying instrument, hesays, so that a man sitting in the midst of theinstrument and turning some mechanism maymove some artificial wings so that they may beatthe air like a bird in flight. It was a strange prophecy, but in those far-offtimes—the dark ages we call them—men hadalready fixed their hopes on flight, and school chil-dren were trained in the use of wings as in thatof the globes. We are not told what a
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