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    The Story of the Aeroplane
    The Story of the Aeroplane
    The Story of the Aeroplane
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    The Story of the Aeroplane

    By C. B. Galbreath

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    History of aviation first published in 1915.According to the Preface: " Around the dry land of the earth are the oceans of water. We may never have seen them, but we have knowledge of them and their navigation, and their names suggest very definite and concrete objects of thought. We sometimes do not realize, however, that we live and move and have our being at the bottom of a vaster and deeper ocean that covers to a depth of many miles the whole earth, and to the surface of which man nor beast nor bird has ever ascended; an ocean with currents and whirlpools and waves of more than mountain height; an ocean in which we are as much at home as are the finny tribes and the monsters of the deep in their watery caverns. This is the ocean of the air. ?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeltzer Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2018
    ISBN9781455447114
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      The Story of the Aeroplane - C. B. Galbreath

      THE STORY OF THE AEROPLANE BY C. B. GALBREATH

      Published by Seltzer Books

      established in 1974, now offering over 14,000 books

      feedback welcome: seltzer@seltzerbooks.com

      Books about early aircraft and aviation available from Seltzer Books:

      Flying Machines: Construction and Operation by W. J. Jackman

      Early History of the Airplane by Orville and Wilbur Wright

      The Aeroplane Speaks by H. Barber

      The Aeroplane by Claude Grahame-Whiteby

      The First Man-Carrying Aeroplane by A. F. Zahm

      The Story of the Aeroplane by C. B. Galbreath

      Over the Front in an Aeroplane and Scenes Inside the French and Flemish Trenches  by Ralph Pulitzer

      Aviation in Peace and War by F. H. Sykes

      PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY F. A. OWEN PUB. CO., Dansville, N. Y. and HALL & McCREARY, Chicago, Ill. INSTRUCTOR LITERATURE SERIES--No. 253

      COPYRIGHT, 1915

      F. A. OWEN PUBLISHING CO.                        

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      The Ocean of Air

      Early Attempts at Aviation

      Early Flying Machines

      Nineteenth Century Experiments

      Claims of Maxim and Ader

      Langley’s Tandem Monoplane

      Experiments with Gliders

      Aviation at the Beginning of the Present Century

      The Kite

      The Plane Defined

      Essentials of the Aeroplane

      The Wright Brothers and Their Problem

      Balancing the Machine

      At Kitty Hawk

      The First Flight

      Machine Balanced by Warping of Planes

      Newspaper Reports Verified

      Trial Flights at Fort Meyer

      Fatal Accident

      Wilbur Wright Wins Fame in France

      Wright Brothers Honored

      United States Government Requirements Successfully Met

      Recent Improvements

      Future of the Aeroplane

      The Ocean of Air

       Around the dry land of the earth are the oceans of water. We may never have seen them, but we have knowledge of them and their navigation, and their names suggest very definite and concrete objects of thought. We sometimes do not realize, however, that we live and move and have our being at the bottom of a vaster and deeper ocean that covers to a depth of many miles the whole earth, and to the surface of which man nor beast nor bird has ever ascended; an ocean with currents and whirlpools and waves of more than mountain height; an ocean in which we are as much at home as are the finny tribes and the monsters of the deep in their watery caverns. This is the ocean of the air. We are about to consider man’s efforts to rise from the bottom of this ocean and wing his flight a little way through the atmosphere above him. His excursions upward are limited, for he could not live near the surface heights of this ocean, vast and deep

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