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Excerpt from Airships Past and Present: Together With Chapters on the Use, of Balloons in Connection With Meteorology, Photography and the Carrier Pigeon The flying machine, which includes all devices which aim at the imitation of the flight of birds, is on the other hand rather briefly discussed, inasmuch as from the practical point of view little of real importance has been accomplished in this depart ment. But it is more than probable the future will have surprises in store for us, and that the hopeful views, lately expressed by the Academie des Sciences, will prove to be justified in so far as the results which may be expected from work on these lines is concerned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.