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قراءة كتاب The Aeroplane
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اللغة: English
الصفحة رقم: 2
of Latham and Bleriot; also F. N. Birkett, Esq., the Topical Postcard Company, and The Central News for permission to use photographs illustrative of modern aviation.
CONTENTS
| CHAP. | PAGE | |
| I. | What Early History Tells | 1 |
| II. | The Work of Scientists | 8 |
| III. | First Fruits of Study | 21 |
| IV. | Otto and Gustav Lilienthal | 31 |
| V. | Gliding Flight | 41 |
| VI. | “The Bird Man” | 53 |
| VII. | Wilbur and Orville Wright | 62 |
| VIII. | The Wright Motor-driven Plane | 71 |
| IX. | Dawn of Flight | 84 |
| X. | Rival Airmen | 93 |
| XI. | A Year of Triumph | 100 |
| XII. | Perils of the Air | 130 |
| XIII. | Military and Cross-Country Flying | 149 |
| XIV. | Sea-Planes and Airships | 169 |
| XV. | Aerial Warfare | 188 |
| XVI. | At a Modern Aerodrome | 209 |
| XVII. | The Flying School | 226 |
| XVIII. | Touring by Air | 247 |
| XIX. | Twenty Years Hence | 270 |
LIST OF PLATES
| The Air Liner of the Future | Frontispiece | |
PLATE |
FACING PAGE |
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| I. | The Langley Machine | 26 |
| II. | Santos-Dumont’s First Flights | 46 |
| III. | Farman’s Voisin Biplane | 68 |
| IV. | Latham’s Fall into the Sea | 84 |
| V. | Bleriot leaving the French Coast | 96 |
| VI. | Bleriot reaches Dover |