Lecture On Artificial Flight
by William G. Krueger
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About this eBook
- Author
- Krueger, William G.
- Title
- Lecture on Artificial Flight Given by request at the Academy of Natural Sciences
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, Ernest Schaal, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- TL: Technology: Motor vehicles, Aeronautics, Astronautics
- Subject
- Aeronautics
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 38109
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38109
- Release Date
- November 23, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.INDEX.
- 3.SAILING IN THE AIR.
- 4.I.—INTRODUCTION.
- 5.II.—HISTORY AND FABLE.
- 6.III.—DISCOVERY OF THE BALLOON.
- 7.IV.—NOTED AIR VOYAGES.
- 8.V.—ABSENCE OF DANGER.
- 9.VI.—CHARM OF ÆRIAL TRAVEL.
- 10.VII.—ÆRIAL VOYAGES HEALTH PROMOTING.
- 11.VIII.—PARACHUTES.
- 12.IX.—THE KITE.
- 13.X.—BALLOONS IMPRACTICABLE.
- 14.XI.—REASONS WHY THE PROBLEM HAS REMAINED UNSOLVED.
- 15.XII.—FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF FLIGHT.
- 16.XIII.—WEIGHT.
- 17.XIV.—SURFACE.
- 18.XV.—POWER.
- 19.XVI.—FLYING CREATURES, THEIR PROPORTIONS, MOVEMENTS.
- 20.XVII.—MECHANICAL PRACTICABILITY OF ARTIFICIAL FLIGHT.
- 21.XVIII.—FLYING MACHINES OF THE PRESENT, THEIR DEFECTS.
- 22.XIX.—THE PRACTICAL FLYING SHIP OF THE NEAR FUTURE.
- 23.XX.—WHAT THE CHANGES FOR THE BETTER WILL BE.
- 24.XXI.—CONCLUDING REMARKS.
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