Excerpt from The Rail-Splitter, Vol. 1: January, 1917In an interesting way he referred to Professor Langley's experience With the ¿ying machine. From his shrewd oh servation of a bumblebee's ¿ying he deduced the principles of the ¿ying machine, and finally succeeded in making the first heavier-than-air machine. After two men had attempted a ¿ying machine by starting it from a height, Dr. Langley, disappointed by the disaster which attended each effort, reluctantly abandoned the project, and the machine was relegated to a museum. Years afterwards Glenn Curtis saw the machine in the museum, and said to himself, There is no reason in the world why it should not ¿y. Anybody could ¿y that. He took it out and started it from the ground, and made a successful ¿ight. The trouble with a good deal of scholar ship, Dr. Winship said, is that it doesn't keep its feet on its ground. Alarge lecture closest attention.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.