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Excerpt from The Conquest of the Air: Or the Advent of Aerial Navigation The final conquest of the air by man finds no popular and, at the same time, scientific account, in English, of its accomplishment. While the rapid progress which is daily being made in aerial navigation necessarily renders any permanent record of the latest achievements impossible, yet the epoch when mechanical flight was demonstrated to the world seems opportune to chronicle the past and present status of the art and to forecast its future. The physical conditions which prevail in the ocean of air being even more important to the aeronaut than the conditions on bodies of water are to the sailor, a knowledge of the former is of vital interest Accordingly, it appeared appropriate that, at the outset, there should be given a description of the ocean above our heads, including the surveys and soundings which have been executed by the author during the past twenty years at his own observatory. 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."