Review of reviews and world's work . JOHN BULLS LAST CHANCE FOR SAFETY. (The cartoonist of Vlk (Berlin l suggests that toinsure perfect security for the nervous, greatlyharassed English people the British Isles be shut upeach night in the strongest safe of the Bank of Fng-laiid. I HIS \L GERMAN AIR YACHT, THE HOHENZOLLERN. (A prophetic view by Ulk. Berlin.). ;::.! Iv/y Ij. IUoah liros. N. V. WILBUR WRIGHT APPROACHING GOVERNORS ISLAND ON HIS RETURN FROM THE FLIGHT UP THE HUDSON RIVER TO GRANTS TOMB LAST MONTH. (The New York city skyline on (he right.) THE AEROPLANE—A RETR
Review of reviews and world's work . JOHN BULLS LAST CHANCE FOR SAFETY. (The cartoonist of Vlk (Berlin l suggests that toinsure perfect security for the nervous, greatlyharassed English people the British Isles be shut upeach night in the strongest safe of the Bank of Fng-laiid. I HIS \L GERMAN AIR YACHT, THE HOHENZOLLERN. (A prophetic view by Ulk. Berlin.). ;::.! Iv/y Ij. IUoah liros. N. V. WILBUR WRIGHT APPROACHING GOVERNORS ISLAND ON HIS RETURN FROM THE FLIGHT UP THE HUDSON RIVER TO GRANTS TOMB LAST MONTH. (The New York city skyline on (he right.) THE AEROPLANE—A RETROSPECTAND A FORECAST. BY y. BERNARD WALKER. LJ UMAN FLIGHT—that dream of thecenturies,—is distinctly an Americanachievement. Among the many enthusiastswho have given thought and effort to thesolution of the problem, four Americans,—Maxim in England, Langley and the Wrightbrothers in America,—stand head and shoul-ders above their fellows; and this is saidwithout the slightest disparagement of theinvestigations, theoretical and practical, ofsuch men as Hargrave in Australia, Lilienthalin Germany, Pilcher in England, Ader inFrance, and Chanute and Zahm in was twenty years ago, in 1889, thatMiram , aided by several wealthymen, applied his inventive genius to the prob-lem. Realizing at the very outset that man,because of his limited strength in
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