Progress in flying machines
By: by O. Chanute, C.E.
Publisher: The American Engineer and Railroad Journal
Published: 1894
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Flying-machines.; Airplanes.
Notes: "A series of [27] articles on 'Progress in flying machines', as distinguished from balloons, which have been published in the Railroad and Engineering Journal (now redesignated as the American engineer), of New York City. The first article appeared in October, 1891."--Pref.
Appendix: [1] The flight of the albatros. Paper read before the Balloon Society, October 3, 1884. By Thomas Moy.--[2] The flying man. The carrying capacity of arched surfaces in sailing flight. By Otto Lilienthal. Translated from Zeitschrift für luftschiffahrt und physik der atmosphäre for November, 1893.
Author's autographed presentation copy to Wilfrid de Fonvielle.